From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 12:43:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14102 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:43:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from loki.csc.ncsu.edu (loki.csc.ncsu.edu [152.1.213.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA14058 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:42:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fwang2@unity.ncsu.edu) Received: from localhost (fwang2@localhost) by loki.csc.ncsu.edu (8.8.4/EC02Jan97) with SMTP id PAA19949; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:42:35 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: loki.csc.ncsu.edu: fwang2 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:42:34 -0500 (EST) From: Feiyi Wang X-Sender: fwang2@loki.csc.ncsu.edu To: Michael Reilly cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3com 3c589 PCMCIA ethernet card In-Reply-To: <00e501bd2dba$1c920320$c84447ab@keeska-mr.Cisco.Com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" Hi, You can use PAO ( FreeBSD Mobile Computing Package) in http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/. There is a version for FreeBSD 2.2.5, it will work. I was always wondering why this package can't be integrated into official distribution of FreeBSD? hope this helps /Feiyi On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Michael Reilly wrote: > I found a thread concerning 3com's 3c589 card and FreeBSD dating back to > 1995. I tried sending Email to the authors of the messages but haven't > received any responses so I'll try here. > > I ran the diagnostics on my 3com 3c589 card to set the IRQ and I/O port (10, > 0x300) and then booted FreeBSD. The card was not found. I then tried > running the card's diagnostics again only to discover that the card now had > an error in the NVRAM (CIS memory corrupt according to the diagnostics). > > The previous thread referenced a program, CHECKCIS.EXE which could be used > to correct this problem but I cannot find that program. > > Can anyone tell me how to 1) correct the CIS memory corrupt problem and, 2) > get this card to work under FreeBSD? > > I am currently using a borrowed IBM Ethernet card which works fine but I > need to return the IBM card soon. > > Thanks, > > michael > > P.S. Windows NT works fine with the card - it doesn't complain about the > corrupt CIS memory and it finds the card. > > ---- ---- ---- > Michael Reilly michaelr@cisco.com > Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA > >