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Date:      Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:55:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Alexander Kjeldaas <astor@guardian.no>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Installation detection of 3c589d
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.970621115438.12997B-100000@lucifer.guardian.no>

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[ I'm not on this list - please cc replys directly to me. I think I'll get
freebsd installed before I subscribe to yet another mailinglist :-) ].

Hi. 
I've tried to install FreeBSD on a laptop which has a 3com 3c589d
etherlink III adaptor. I've successfully booted linux on the machine and I
_know_ that linux detects the card at address 0x300 and uses irc 3. The
default freebsd installation disk uses irq 10 so I changed that to 3 just
in case. I've never installed FreeBSD so I might have misunderstood
something, but this is what I did.

Booted.
Selected visual config. Removed all SCSI-stuff and other stuff until there
were no more "CONF" issues to be resolved. (I think I removed one of the
serial ports when I tried with the IRQ 3 settings - otherwise it was all
hardware that isn't present on the machine). I tried both setting irc to 3
and 10 in the configuration for the network card.

The probe-code then said:
zp: pcmcia slot 0:
zp: slot 1: no card in slot
zp0 not found at 0x300

- which seems to indicate that it can't find the card. Now the
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook10.html
sais that the 3C589 is supported. Maybe the probe-code should be
slightly modified to recognize the 3c589d.

astor





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