From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 24 21:00:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA22940 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 21:00:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22926 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 21:00:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA20167; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:00:23 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:00:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199702250500.WAA20167@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Tom Wadlow Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet options on 2.2-GAMMA In-Reply-To: References: <199702250428.VAA20042@rocky.mt.sri.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. That's irellevant. The card comes 'configured' from the factory differently. I don't know why, but it does. :( (And, there are all sorts of different models as well, which behave slightly different.) > 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. Then the values saved in the card in non-volatile RAM are not the same as what FreeBSD expects. To read these values you must use the DOS supplied program. The other possibility is that the card is a 3C589D, which appears to be different enough so it's not supported with the zp0 driver. > 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. Nope, this is completely appropriate. Nate