Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:02:59 -0500 From: Allen Landsidel <all@biosys.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 4.x pccardd question, 3.x cvsup question, etc.. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010222204225.00c3c080@216.200.176.7>
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I was using 3.4-Release+PAO for a while on a laptop with two nics as my
firewall.. I decided to replace it after a while with a "normal" desktop
machine, so I could put my laptop into a more useful role other than
sitting in my closet with the lid down..
I've recently decided to give the laptop back it's job as the firewall, and
decided to go with 4.2-R -> Stable, since all the PAO code was merged in
(3.4 didn't support my pcic properly) and installed it yesterday.
After cvsupping to stable then building and installing a new world and
kernel, I started on the configuration.. apparently, the old pccardd
problem is still haunting us after all, as I've had no luck at all getting
two nics to work simultaneously.
The laptop is pretty old, a Twinhead 9133TV, Pentium-133 with 48MB, and a
cirrus logic pcic.. detected as a PD672X. I'm using a 3Com 3C589D and a
Linksys combocard as the two nics, and if the only one in the system,
either one works fine.
Here are the relevant lines from dmesg, as well as pccardd.. questions
follow this section.
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pcic-pci0: <Cirrus Logic PD6729/6730 PC-Card Controller> port 0xfcfc-0xfcff
at d
evice 19.0 on pci0
pcic0: <Cirrus Logic PD672X> at port 0xfcfc iomem 0xd0000 drq 0 on isa0
pcic0: Polling mode
pccard0: <PC Card bus -- kludge version> on pcic0
pccard1: <PC Card bus -- kludge version> on pcic0
Feb 3 00:46:40 vishnu pccardd[48]: Card "3Com Corporation"("3C589D")
[TP/BNC LAN Card Ver. 2a] [000002] matched "3Com" ("3C589D") [(null)] [(null)]
Feb 3 00:46:45 vishnu pccardd[48]: ep0: 3Com (3C589D) inserted.
Feb 3 00:46:45 vishnu pccardd[48]: pccardd started
Feb 3 00:49:36 vishnu /kernel: pccard: card inserted, slot 1
Feb 3 00:49:36 vishnu pccardd[48]: Card "Linksys"("Combo PCMCIA
EthernetCard (EC2T)") [2.0] [(null)] matched "Linksys" ("Combo PCMCIA
EthernetCard (EC2T)") [(null)] [(null)]
Feb 3 00:49:36 vishnu pccardd[48]: No free configuration for card Linksys
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Ok, so I've dug around all over previous posts to -questions, -stable and
-mobile, all over usenet, as well as massaged google as well as I can, and
I've got about three questions..
1. (obvious) Has anyone managed to get two pcmcia nics working with 4.2 on
a laptop? If so, I'd love to hear how.
2. On one of the threads, it was suggested that pccardd could be skipped,
and "pccardc enabler" used to enable the cards by hand. I've got no
problem using this method in my startup config, but when attempting this
command I get "Device not configured" as if I was missing something in
/dev.. should I MAKEDEV on ep0 and ep1 (or perhaps ed0 for the linksys) and
try this again? Help on figuring out what other options I should pass to
pccardc would be helpful as well.
3. If I decide to go back to 3.X instead, and use PAO, am I going to have
massive problems cvsupping and keeping this box on the -STABLE branch? I
was hesitant to do this before as I thought cvsup might screw my PAO stuff
up totally.
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