From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 28 02:34:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A31F737B401 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB77243F75 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:34:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.6p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h6S9Y4tU037189; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 05:34:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <002001c354db$2fb57ce0$0402a8c0@dotnet> References: <002001c354db$2fb57ce0$0402a8c0@dotnet> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:23:12 +0200 To: "Nick H. - Network Operations" From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG cc: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: Belkin F5D5020 PCMCIA Card/Notebook Network Card X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:34:21 -0000 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 , 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 $device stop Which the author claims (claimed) works (worked) for him. You can see my posts from October of last year at , , and . And then there's the post at from April, which also mentions this card. But still, no answers to this question. Unfortunately, just Googling for "Belkin F5D5020 FreeBSD" doesn't do much good, as it turns up many resellers of this card which claims that it works with FreeBSD, or articles that happen to mention both FreeBSD and this card on the same page (such as ), but which don't actually provide any solutions. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)