Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:53:25 -0500 From: Greg Berenfield <gberenfield@berenfield.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PCMCIA/PC-Card support Message-ID: <C07C9808801FD31195E500A0CC407F7A1C4C7C@mail.berenfield.com>
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Greetings, I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and recently installed it on my Dell 7500 laptop (previously installed it on a mini-tower for web-server role). I'm trying to use the following pcmcia cards on my laptop and have had no luck under 4.1.1-REL and 5-current: 3c589 3c575 3crw737a (AirConnect wireless) The 3c589 (i think) should be the easiest one to get working but under 4.1.1-rel when I assign it an ip address with ifconfig, the link light on the card goes from solid to blinking - everything looks right (as far as I can tell) Under 5-current, no luck with the 3c575 but I think that's due to ignorance (of a larger nature ;) For 5-current, I'm using the NEWCARD config file as a template but am unsure of what drivers to comment/leave in place for cardbus support. Also I have little/no clue on the device.hints file and just copied NEWCARD.hints to /boot/device.hints (least my 5-current kernel boots :). But beyond that, I can't tell where to put in 3c575 config info to have it recognize the card; it detects the inset but gives the hex id info but I need to tie that to the pccard.conf file? And should this file sit in the /etc/default dir or go into /etc ? If there's any good reference docs for pcmcia/pccard support for 4.1.1-REL and/or 5-current, I'd love to know about them. I'm new to FreeBSD but already love the security and cvs-update features over redhat linux (7.0 my prime motivator for the switch). PCMCIA support is my only gripe - it seems limited over redhat's driver support. (Cardbus being the limit I guess). Any/all help greatly appreciated! Greg B. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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