[MLB-WIRELESS] PCI PC card adaptor

[james alford]

i also had this problem with a sparklan pci wireless card.  
specs said it was standard pci but it never powered up in my old 
gigabyte ga-586tx3 (pci 2.1 compliance board).
move it over to my gigabyte dual p3 board and it worked first time, 
power light lights up as soon as the computer is powered on.
for some reason some manufactures or rebadgers just don't have proper 
documentation.

Richard Van Orsouw wrote:

>I'm having problems getting this RICOH card adaptor to be recognised in a
>RH7.3 on a P 166Mhz box. The card works fine when installed in another
>machine (Athlon 1GHz) under RH7.3. Is there a PCI bus version problem ?. The
>machine is a DELL where the PCI/ISA bus is vertically mounted via a socket
>on the motherboard ( 1 PCI, 3 ISA)
>I've tried running freeBSD but machine hangs aftter mounting ad0 during
>installation.
>Also does freeBSD have problems with 3COM & NE200 compatibel LAN cards. This
>machine hangs with either of these cards installed during installation. RH
>7.3 installation works fine with LAN cards but not PC card adaptor.
>In summary,
>
>OS		3COM LAN	PCI adaptor
>RH7.3		OK		ds not loaded
>free BSD	hangs	during install
>
>ne help would be much appreciated as I have spent hours and hours trying to
>find the right combo to get this machine happening as my router to i/face my
>wireless and LAN network.
>
>Cheers.
>
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