Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 00:23:56 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Douglas Carmichael <dcarmich@mcs.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What kernel configuration is needed for the 3Com 3C589D EtherLink III PCMCIA card? Message-ID: <199710031453.AAA00932@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Oct 1997 08:15:12 EST." <199710031315.IAA00294@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net>
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Before attempting an kernel hacking, I suggest you learn to wrap the text lines in your messages. 8) > I might be needing to use Ethernet in the near future, and I am > wondering what changes to my kernel configuration do I need to make > to drive a 3Com 3C589D PCMCIA EtherLink III card? I have an NEC Versa > 6050MH with FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE and PAO-970616. Ok. You can back out the PAO changes; they're not necessary in your case. > Here is my kernel configuration file: > # > # Sample Laptop Configuration > # for lenlen.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (Toshiba Libretto 30) > # Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> Probably not a good thing to have started with such a confused and packed out config. You've accumulated a lot of rubbish here. > maxusers 20 > options CHILD_MAX=128 > options OPEN_MAX=128 You might want maxusers higher, and shouldn't need the other two there. > options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation You don't want this; your system has an FPU. > options NFS #Network Filesystem > options MFS #Memory Filesystem Do you know what either of these are? Have you been using them? Probably best to leave them out. > options "SCSI_DELAY=15" #Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device Do you have a SCSI adapter? > options BOUNCE_BUFFERS #include support for DMA bounce buffers Do you have an ISA busmaster adapter and > 16MB of memory (no)? You don't want this either. > options XSERVER #Include X server support You're not running PCVT, so this is unused. > options FAILSAFE #Be conservative This isn't actually used much, and hurts performance where it is. [... lots of PAO stuff elided ...] > # Dont remove these two lines! > controller crd0 > device pcic0 at crd? > device pcic1 at crd? But there are three! > controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr > disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 > disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 Do you actually have two floppy drives? > # Sound devices > controller snd0 > device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr > options SBC_IRQ=5 > device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 > device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 > device opl0 at isa? port 0x388 > device pca0 at isa? port IO_TIMER1 tty Why do you have both a soundblaster and the pcaudio driver configured? > pseudo-device sl 2 > pseudo-device ppp 2 > pseudo-device tun 1 You run SLIP, kernel _and_ user ppp? Hmm. It's generally better to roll your config from almost scratch rather than to take someone else's (for a different machine, no less) and cut it down. mike
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