Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:08:33 -0500 From: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com> To: 'Greg Berenfield' <gberenfield@berenfield.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: PCMCIA/PC-Card support Message-ID: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C12D5F9@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com>
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The 3C575, I can tell you about. The only drivers 3com buried (and occasionally moves around) in their site are written for Linux. Since it's 3Com and not one of the FBSD devotees that wrote the code, chances are you won't get the source to port it. Maybe you can fudge with linux compatibility, I don't know about that part -----Original Message----- From: Greg Berenfield [SMTP:gberenfield@berenfield.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:53 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PCMCIA/PC-Card support 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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