From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jun 21 02:56:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA21731 for mobile-outgoing; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 02:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lucifer.guardian.no (gate.guardian.no [195.1.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA21722 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 02:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5045 invoked by uid 202); 21 Jun 1997 09:55:40 -0000 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:55:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Alexander Kjeldaas To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Installation detection of 3c589d Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ 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