From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 18:55:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA02484 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 18:55:16 -0700 Received: from mx.spin.ad.jp (mx.spin.ad.jp [165.76.20.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA02478 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 18:55:12 -0700 Received: from mailsv1.pcvan.or.jp (mailsv1.pcvan.or.jp [192.47.117.193]) by mx.spin.ad.jp (8.6.12+2.5Wb3/3.3W9-mx.spin.V1.1) with ESMTP id KAA29420 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 10:55:15 +0900 Received: by mailsv1.pcvan.or.jp (8.6.10+2.4W/2.7W-inet_gate/1.1) id KAA23953; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 10:57:08 +0900 Received: by pcvan.or.jp; Fri, 21 Jul 95 10:57:07 +0900 Original-Encoded-Information-Types: IA5-Text Priority: normal Message-Id: <950721105401.24414@pcvan.or.jp> Subject: PCMCIA Situation... Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 10:54:04 +0900 From: Troy Curtiss To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-PCVAN-Message-Id: #11853870 X-PCVAN-Date: 95/07/21 10:54:17 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello World... I am currently on assignment in Japan, and all I have is my trusty: AST Ascentia 900N 486DX2-50 Notebook Computer 8MB Ram, 325MB Hard Drive PCMCIA II slots (2) PCMCIA Cards are: ATT Keepintouch Express PCMCIA modem 14.4K/FAX/DATA Xircom CreditCard Ethernet Adapter IIps (10BT) I managed (through some serious hassle) to get 2.0.5R-SNAP-950622. I only could use floppies, so I just got the binary, manual, and kernel src. It installed fine, but I am having the following problems... The serial ports (both PCMCIA and onboard PC ports, ) are not recognized, no matter how much pwer-saving stuff I disable in the BIOS. I also took out the PCMCIA cards to eliminate any chance of IRQ conflicts... still no cuaa ports (should be sio0 and sio1). Any ideas, drivers in devel, similar probs??? I believe the system uses a VL82C146 (?) PCMCIA controller... At least that is what the DOS program that uses it says. (sadly enuff, DOS and Winblows both work fine with these cards, although no simultaneously.. bug?) The Ethernet card is also not recognized... although that could be due to no driver support yet... I don:t think the zp or ze dirvers work for this card??? when I try to manually probe the cards via boot -c option, I get a kernel panic saying invalid page...blah...blah... So, I return to America in a few months (October-ish), is there any chance I can make my modem and ethernet card work over here??? If not, where and who and what can I do to aid driver development in this area?? Thank you in advance for all the help I'm sure to get ;) Troy