From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jun 4 14:30:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.3.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0888F37B811 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 14:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from woodstock.monkey.net (d52.as9.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.132.180]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.9.1) id QAA19298 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:30:08 -0500 Received: from pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodstock.monkey.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D95F188 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:34:47 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/16/1999 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: pccard ethernet FA410-TX Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 16:34:47 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <20000604213447.2D95F188@woodstock.monkey.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have procured a Netgear FA410-TX card for use in my laptop The card works ok with Windows, so I believe the hardware to be ok. When I boot FreeBSD on the machine and run pccardd, it recognizes the card and I can ifconfig it, but any attempt to send results in ed1 timeouts and no data goes out on the wire. This is with a 4.0 snapshot from mid-May. I do have the up to date pccard.conf with config 0x20 "ed0" ? vs. the older buggy one. In searching for information on this, I found a reference mentioning that newer versions of this card have problems autodetecting the speed, and that under Linux the program listed at http://www.eh3.com/fa_select.c could be used to set the speed. Looking at the lights on the transceiver, it does appear to be attempting to negotiate speed - all three LEDs are flashing at about once per second. The other end is an unmanaged switch, so I can't wire that end down. I also tried specifying "media" and/or "mediaopt" at ifconfig time, but the ed driver, true to the man page, seems not to support this. The card is not conflicting with IRQ or memory with anything else, and I have tried it at different IRQ and memory locations just to be sure. Does anyone have any experience with newer versions of this card, or any suggestions? I wasn't completely successful in getting fa_select.c to compile under FreeBSD; there were some structure members which didn't match up and my knowledge of that stuff isn't up to snuff I'm afraid. The machine in question is a Compaq Presario 1200. If anyone has suggestions or ideas I'd be most appreciative. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message