Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 16:34:47 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: pccard ethernet FA410-TX Message-ID: <20000604213447.2D95F188@woodstock.monkey.net>
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I have procured a Netgear FA410-TX card for use in my laptop The card works ok with Windows, so I believe the hardware to be ok. When I boot FreeBSD on the machine and run pccardd, it recognizes the card and I can ifconfig it, but any attempt to send results in ed1 timeouts and no data goes out on the wire. This is with a 4.0 snapshot from mid-May. I do have the up to date pccard.conf with config 0x20 "ed0" ? vs. the older buggy one. In searching for information on this, I found a reference mentioning that newer versions of this card have problems autodetecting the speed, and that under Linux the program listed at http://www.eh3.com/fa_select.c could be used to set the speed. Looking at the lights on the transceiver, it does appear to be attempting to negotiate speed - all three LEDs are flashing at about once per second. The other end is an unmanaged switch, so I can't wire that end down. I also tried specifying "media" and/or "mediaopt" at ifconfig time, but the ed driver, true to the man page, seems not to support this. The card is not conflicting with IRQ or memory with anything else, and I have tried it at different IRQ and memory locations just to be sure. Does anyone have any experience with newer versions of this card, or any suggestions? I wasn't completely successful in getting fa_select.c to compile under FreeBSD; there were some structure members which didn't match up and my knowledge of that stuff isn't up to snuff I'm afraid. The machine in question is a Compaq Presario 1200. If anyone has suggestions or ideas I'd be most appreciative. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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