From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Feb 23 18: 8:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.venon.com (ns1.venon.com [64.7.7.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E1237B4EC for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from all@biosys.net) Received: from megalomaniac.biosys.net (megalomaniac.venon.com [64.7.7.82]) by ns1.venon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC57D14BC for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:06:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010223210633.00c6d778@wheresmymailserver.com> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:07:27 -0500 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Allen Landsidel Subject: 4.x pccardd question, 3.x cvsup question, etc.. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What follows is a message I recently posted to -stable.. I had posted something similar quite a while back to -questions.. so far, no luck.. so I figure I'll try you here on -mobile. ;) ------- I was using 3.4-Release+PAO for a while on a laptop with two nics as my firewall.. I decided to replace it after a while with a "normal" desktop machine, so I could put my laptop into a more useful role other than sitting in my closet with the lid down.. I've recently decided to give the laptop back it's job as the firewall, and decided to go with 4.2-R -> Stable, since all the PAO code was merged in (3.4 didn't support my pcic properly) and installed it yesterday. After cvsupping to stable then building and installing a new world and kernel, I started on the configuration.. apparently, the old pccardd problem is still haunting us after all, as I've had no luck at all getting two nics to work simultaneously. The laptop is pretty old, a Twinhead 9133TV, Pentium-133 with 48MB, and a cirrus logic pcic.. detected as a PD672X. I'm using a 3Com 3C589D and a Linksys combocard as the two nics, and if the only one in the system, either one works fine. Here are the relevant lines from dmesg, as well as pccardd.. questions follow this section. -------------------- pcic-pci0: port 0xfcfc-0xfcff at d evice 19.0 on pci0 pcic0: at port 0xfcfc iomem 0xd0000 drq 0 on isa0 pcic0: Polling mode pccard0: on pcic0 pccard1: on pcic0 Feb 3 00:46:40 vishnu pccardd[48]: Card "3Com Corporation"("3C589D") [TP/BNC LAN Card Ver. 2a] [000002] matched "3Com" ("3C589D") [(null)] [(null)] Feb 3 00:46:45 vishnu pccardd[48]: ep0: 3Com (3C589D) inserted. Feb 3 00:46:45 vishnu pccardd[48]: pccardd started Feb 3 00:49:36 vishnu /kernel: pccard: card inserted, slot 1 Feb 3 00:49:36 vishnu pccardd[48]: Card "Linksys"("Combo PCMCIA EthernetCard (EC2T)") [2.0] [(null)] matched "Linksys" ("Combo PCMCIA EthernetCard (EC2T)") [(null)] [(null)] Feb 3 00:49:36 vishnu pccardd[48]: No free configuration for card Linksys ------------------------ Ok, so I've dug around all over previous posts to -questions, -stable and -mobile, all over usenet, as well as massaged google as well as I can, and I've got about three questions.. 1. (obvious) Has anyone managed to get two pcmcia nics working with 4.2 on a laptop? If so, I'd love to hear how. 2. On one of the threads, it was suggested that pccardd could be skipped, and "pccardc enabler" used to enable the cards by hand. I've got no problem using this method in my startup config, but when attempting this command I get "Device not configured" as if I was missing something in /dev.. should I MAKEDEV on ep0 and ep1 (or perhaps ed0 for the linksys) and try this again? Help on figuring out what other options I should pass to pccardc would be helpful as well. 3. If I decide to go back to 3.X instead, and use PAO, am I going to have massive problems cvsupping and keeping this box on the -STABLE branch? I was hesitant to do this before as I thought cvsup might screw my PAO stuff up totally. -------signature file------- PGP Key Fingerprint: 446B 7718 B219 9F1E 43DD 8E4A 6BE9 D739 CCC5 7FD7 "I don't think [Linux] will be very successful in the long run." "My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse." -Ken Thompson, Interview May 1999. http://www.freebsd.org FreeBSD - The Power to Serve http://www.rfnj.org Radio Free New Jersey - 375 streams - 96kbps @ 44.1khz http://namespace.org -- http://name.space Resist the ICANN! Support name.space! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message