I know I'm a bit late, but I just tried the same thing, and got the same
error message (re wi0) on my laptop.

Ian

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Tracy Di Marco White wrote:
> 
> I was hoping that GENERIC_LAPTOP would work better than previous
> kernels.
> however:
>   cbb1: interrupting at irq 11
>   cbb1: cacheline 0x0 lattimer 0x20
>   cbb1: bhlc 0x821000 lscp 0x20030300
>   cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0
>   cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 3 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0x20
>   pcmcia1 at cardslot1
>   wi0 at pcmcia1 function 0wi0: init failed
>   wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fce0/0; last status ffff
>   : could not get mac address, attach failed
> And my xircom card isn't even detected, which is new also, usually I
> could get the xircom with the PCIBIOS stuff, or the wireless card without
> PCIBIOS.
> 
> I'm using GENERIC_LAPTOP,v 1.2.2.2 2000/10/30 22:27:19 tv, with
> no changes.
> 
> With my 1.5_ALPHA2 kernel the wireless card is found as:
>   cbb1 at pci0 dev 4 function 1: Texas Instruments PCI1225 PCI-CardBus Bridge (rev. 0x01)
>   cbb1: NOT USED because of unconfigured interrupt
>   pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0-0x3e1 iomem 0xd0000-0xdffff
>   pcic0: controller 0 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has sockets A and B
>   pcic0: controller 1 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has no sockets
>   pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
>   pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1
>   pcic0: controller 0 detecting irqs with mask 0xdeb8:..9..10
>   pcic0: using irq 9 for socket events
>   pcmcia1: CIS version PC Card Standard 5.0
>   pcmcia1: CIS info: Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE, Version 01.01, 
>   pcmcia1: Manufacturer code 0x156, product 0x2
>   pcmcia1: function 0: network adapter, ccr addr 3e0 mask 1
>   pcmcia1: function 0, config table entry 1: I/O card; irq mask ffff; iomask 6, iospace 0-3f; io16 irqpulse irqlevel
>   wi0 at pcmcia1 function 0 port 0x400-0x43f
>   wi0: address 00:60:1d:f1:d9:3a
> 
> Tracy J. Di Marco White
> Project Vincent Systems Manager
> gendalia@iastate.edu