On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:16:28 +0100 (CET) David Vasek <va...@fido.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, David Vasek wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Mikael Bak wrote: > > > >> Hi list, > >> > >> Seems to me that this card isn't recognized at boot time (dmesg pasted at > >> the end of this email). It's a PCMCIA card. Instead of a wifi device > >> OpenBSD tries to allocate a serial port (com3). > > > > I don't think it is necessarily related to the wi(4) driver. I experienced > > very similar behaviour with an ne(4) PCMCIA card (D-Link DE-650). Sometimes > > it got detected correctly as ne3, sometimes as a non-working serial port > > (pccom?). The machine was a ThinkPad T42 and the following part of the > > dmesg > > is from 4.2-current. ACPI was not configured. I haven't used that card > > since > > then. > > It hasn't changed. The Ethernet card gets incorrectly detected as com* in > one PCMCIA slot (pcmcia0) and correctly as ne3 in the other (pcmcia1). It > still has some probles there from time to time. Don't know what is the > cause of this. > > Have you tried your wi(4) card in both PCMCIA slots in your laptop? (One > slot at a time, of course.) > > Regards, > David > Hi David, No, I hadn't tried the card in both slots. But I did now, and still same error. Thanks for the tip. Mikael
