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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 14:39:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        David Edwards <david@portanc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3COM 3c589D
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518143838.9951Z-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <355CB80B.41C67EA6@portanc.com>

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On Fri, 15 May 1998, David Edwards wrote:

> How soon will the 3Com 3c589D pcmcia network card be supported
> for FreeBSD?   

Works fine in my old 486 but no go in my new P166.

> I am running FreeBSD 2.2.6 on a Toshiba 435CDS Laptop.
> The 3c589D pcmcia card seems to be recognized, but 
> I am not able to ping other hosts on the network.  

Toshibas are infamous for having nonstandard PCCARD controllers.  If it
supports CardBus then you're probably out of luck since these new
controllers aren't backwards compatible.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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