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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 1997 20:55:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom Wadlow <wadlow@pilot.net>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ethernet options on 2.2-GAMMA 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.95P.970224204632.4883G-100000@dc3.pilot.net>
In-Reply-To: <199702250428.VAA20042@rocky.mt.sri.com>

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> > I'm saying I don't know if it's working at the moment - things
> > break, on the supported list or not. :-)
> 
> It works fine, but in the same manner as the normal 'ISA' drivers.  If
> the card/driver parameters don't match, then the driver won't find the
> card.  The zp0 is a 'dedicated' driver and doesn't take advantage of the
> fact that PCMCIA card can be configured to almost anywhere.  That code
> exists in FreeBSD, but isn't documented well enough to use for 'GENERIC'
> users.

FWIW, I've got it set up using the parameters in the HARDWARE.TXT file
(which agree with the ones in the install program).  The card is brand new
(I bought it for this purpose), and hasn't been set up under any other
system before.  The FreeBSD default parameters agree with what the
Etherlink manual says they should be.  Don't have a DOS/Windows system
with PCMCIA (or without, for that matter), so I can't try it on there
first but it seems like it should work.  I've tried it in both PCMCIA
slots and it seems to see a card in the appropriate slot, but doesn't
recognize it at a zp0. Tried it with all non-essential devices disabled,
and with all enabled, and reasonable permutations between.  Gotten into
the Emergency shell, and looked for it with ifconfig too, just to be sure
(though if the kernel doesn't acknowledge it, ifconfig sure as hell isn't
gonna see it....)

BTW, I don't know what the netiquette of this particular list is, so
please advise if I should take this discussion offline from
hackers@freebsd.org.  If it's annoying, blame Jordan.  He convinced me to
give FreeBSD a try at Usenix ;-)

--Tom





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