On Wednesday 01 December 2004 16:48, Chris King wrote:
> I recently installed NetBSD 1.6.2 on an old Toshiba T1960CS laptop
> (486DX, 8MB RAM), and have been having some problems with PCMCIA.
> I've tried three devices, and have had a different problem with each
> (all of which have been reported seperately before):

...

> Any ideas as to what's causing these problems?  I can only assume
> they're all related, possibly (but hopefully not) to the laptop's lack
> of memory.  Are there easy workarounds?  Installing more memory isn't
> really an option, since the case is sealed tight and its external
> memory card format is quite hard to find.  The kernel (custom
> compiled, same problems happen with GENERIC though) is only 1.5MB, and
> there's usually over 1MB free after I log in.

The last time I had this happen I had a bad pcmcia connector inside the 
laptop.  One pin was broken off, and caused even the printed strings to 
return bogus information, such as random bits (every boot would appear 
different) or stuck on/stuck off bits.

--Michael