Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:58:11 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com> Cc: "'Greg Berenfield'" <gberenfield@berenfield.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: PCMCIA/PC-Card support Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010311157160.7969-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C12D5F9@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com>
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That card will be supported by the cardbus code once it's finished being tested in -CURRENT. It will just use the if_xl driver for it's actual driveer code, but there is no cardbus yet in -STABLE, so that's why it's not being detected. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Potts, Ross wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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