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Subject: Re: 3c589D and pccard support in FreeBSD 2.2.5
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>     > I'm trying to install PAO card support on my new notebook
>     > which has an O2Micro 6832 CardBus bridge and a 3Com 3c589D
>     > card attached. The FreeBSD is 2.2.5 from CD-ROM together
>     > with the PAO-ready boot-diskette.
>     
>     FWIW, this hardware should be supported 'out of the box' with the LAPTOP
>     kernel in FreeBSD 2.2.6.
> 
> BTW: does the FreeBSD 2.2.6. boot.flp contain the support
> for the above hardware also?

It should, if you can figure out the hardware settings saved in the
card's EEPROM.

> and 7 were attached via pccardd(8) to the card but with
> slow network performance (ping delays of ~1.600 ms).

It's probably not a mis-configured IRQ then.

> I checked the same BIOS setup with the Linux boot diskette
> and the Linux cardservice uses IRQ 3 for the 3C589D and
> after running ifconfig(8) for the interface all was fine.

No delays in Linux?

This one has me stumped.  Mike?


Nate

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