I am having trouble to get any network cards to work in my laptop's PCMCIA card slot. I get errors about not being able to map or allocate enough memory. This has been happening for a RealTek 8139 100Base-T network card and now an Atheros based WiFi card. Both cards work, and the PCMCIA slot worked in this laptop for both Windows ME and Red Hat Linux. Is there any way to get FreeBSD to pre-allocate memory for the PCMCIA card or any other approach that will get my WiFi card to work? The exact error message I'm getting for the atheros card is:
ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413) ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0x88000000-0x8800ffff irq 9 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 ath0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ath0: unable to alloc memory for 1000 tx descriptors, error 12 ath0: failed to allocate descriptors: 12 device_attach: ath0 attach returned 12 I've have this same problem for 6.0, 5.4, 5.3, 5.2.1, and maybe even 4.9, but I can't remember that far back. It's been ages. This isn't related to the 16 meg limit for DMA is it? I wouldn't think PCI/Cardbus devices would have the same problems as ISA device. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2
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