Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:23:12 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: "Nick H. - Network Operations" <nickh@supportteam.net> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: Belkin F5D5020 PCMCIA Card/Notebook Network Card Message-ID: <a0600120fbb4a885a2b85@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <002001c354db$2fb57ce0$0402a8c0@dotnet> References: <002001c354db$2fb57ce0$0402a8c0@dotnet>
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At 2:38 AM -0500 2003/07/28, Nick H. - Network Operations wrote:
> Does support for the Belkin F5D5020 PCMCIA Card/Notebook Network Card exist
> in FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE? According to Belkin, it does, but I have been
> unable to find any support for this card. Any suggestions on the right
> place to look are more than welcome.
Back in October of last year, I cooked up a pccard.conf entry for
it that seemed to mostly work:
# Belkin F5D5020 NE2000-compatible card (FCC ID: LXLC1LANTB)
card "Belkin" "F5D5020-PCMCIA-Network-Card"
config auto "ed" ?
logstr "Belkin F5D5020 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet 16-bit PCMCIA
card (NE2000-compatible)"
insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
I submitted this to Warner Losh, but IIRC, I got an indication
back that this wasn't right. However, I don't recall that I ever got
any correct pccard.conf setting for this device, and while I could
get FreeBSD to see the card and use this entry to mostly recognize
it, I could not actually get any positive network results this way.
Any additional information you can find would be appreciated.
Right now, I'm using a Linksys (EtherFast 10/100 Integrated PC Card
(PCM100) on the machine where I was trying to use the Belkin, but it
sticks out from the machine and blocks the second PC Card slot, so
I'd prefer to use the Belkin (which is flush with the edge and comes
with a dongle), if possible.
If I could get them both working, or get one of them working with
one of my various 802.11b WiFi cards, then I would have two NICs and
could do some much more interesting things with this machine.
Unfortunately, everything seems to want IRQ3, so even if I could get
the individual cards working by themselves, I don't know if I could
ever get them working together.
I did find an interesting entry at
<http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=8315>,
at the bottom (dated April 2002) that shows the pccard.conf entry of:
# Belkin F5D5020
card "Belkin" "F5D5020-PCMCIA-Network-Card"
config auto "ed" ? 0x10
insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
Which the author claims (claimed) works (worked) for him.
You can see my posts from October of last year at
<http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=753513+0+archive/2002/freebsd-questions/20021013.freebsd-questions>,
<http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2755078+0+archive/2002/freebsd-questions/20021013.freebsd-questions>,
and
<http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=750581+0+archive/2002/freebsd-questions/20021013.freebsd-questions>.
And then there's the post at
<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-April/001987.html>;
from April, which also mentions this card.
But still, no answers to this question. Unfortunately, just
Googling for "Belkin F5D5020 FreeBSD" doesn't do much good, as it
turns up many resellers of this card which claims that it works with
FreeBSD, or articles that happen to mention both FreeBSD and this
card on the same page (such as
<http://www.23degrees.net/mt/archives/000135.html>), but which don't
actually provide any solutions.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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