Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:49:41 +0200 From: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: FreeBSD mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE, Netgear FA410TXC, device timeout Message-ID: <20000619094941.A429@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <00061823431800.00793@icarus.tiac.net> References: <20000617225842.A36405@vobiscum.styx.org> <20000618164044.A9791@stat.Duke.EDU> <20000618202944.F9791@stat.Duke.EDU> <00061823431800.00793@icarus.tiac.net>
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 11:35:24PM -0400, peterg wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Sean O'Connell wrote:
> > Sean O'Connell stated:
> >
> > > In the case of the Netgear card, if_ed is broken. I have attempted
> > > to help two people off-line trying to use these cards, and in both
> > > cases, they _never_ worked. These were on truly free IRQs (usually
> > > irq 3 with COM2 disabled in the BIOS and not even in the kernel config
> > > file). In both cases, replacing "device ed0 at isa?.." with just
> > > "device ed" really only was a cosmetic fix to change ed1 timeouts to
> > > ed0 timeouts. These cards just plain do not work as is.
> > >
> > > if_ed is also badly broken for the Linksys PCMP100. .....
>
> I was 1 of those 2 people who received extensive off-line guidance and help from
> Sean on getting the FA410 to work. We were not succesfull.
> At first it was simple basic stuff like making sure to recompile w/ pccard
> support etc.. After which the ep0 driver worked great w/ the 3COM 589 series
> of cards at 10Mbps. However the ed0 driver we never were able to get going w/
> the 2 models of 10/100 cards we had, the FA410TX and the D-Link 660.
As far as the D-Link 660 is concerned, first mine works OK on FreeBSD
4.0-Stable and has always worked, and second, mine is not a Cardbus card.
Jun 19 09:35:52 rose pccardd[43]: Card "D-Link"("DE-660") matched "D-Link"
("DE-660")
Jun 19 09:35:53 rose apmd[136]: start
Jun 19 09:35:57 rose /kernel: ed1 at port 0x240-0x25f irq 3 slot 1 on pccard1
Jun 19 09:35:57 rose /kernel: ed1: supplying EUI64: 00:80:c8:ff:fe:ba:87:88
Jun 19 09:35:57 rose /kernel: ed1: address 00:80:c8:ba:87:88, type NE2000 (16
bit)
Jun 19 09:35:57 rose pccard:ed1: D-Link DE-660 inserted
Jun 19 09:35:58 rose /kernel: ed1: starting DAD for
fe80:0002::0280:c8ff:feba:8788
Jun 19 09:35:58 rose pccardd[43]: pccardd started
Jun 19 09:35:59 rose /kernel: ed1: DAD complete for
fe80:0002::0280:c8ff:feba:8788 - no duplicates found
The performance moreover is very good for a 10 Mb/s card.
> Granted the D-Link 660 is a 32 bit Cardbus, but I did get help back from a
> couple of folks who claimed it should work as a 16bit PCMCIA 10/100.
> We are now content w/ the 3Com cards and ep0 at 10Mbps.
>
> --P
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