Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:52:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com> To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net> Cc: "Tournier, Hubert (FR)" <htournier@deloitte.fr>, "\"tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG\" " <tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newbus, ocenabler and the new ol driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909220942580.22503-100000@heathers.stdio.com> In-Reply-To: <19990922131243.44042@ns.int.ftf.net>
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Tournier, Hubert (FR) writes: > > > > I've checked Larry's token ring page. > > > > If you don't mind, what are "newbus" and "ocenabler" ? > > newbus is a new DMA + bus architecture in FreeBSD -- I > know no more :-) > > I don't know what ocenabler is... ocenablar is a dos program that should be on the diskettes that came with your PCCard. According to Olicom you should be able to configure your card with this program and it will probe as a PCI card. I have never looked into it so YMMV. > > Does the ol.tar.gz driver really works only for PCI cards, or is it just > > that it has only been tested with this kind of hardware ? > > According to Larry, it only works with PCI. I've tried in > on -current, and it works very well (very verbose debugging though). I have to add the ISA probe/attach and there are some slight differences in memory management. Only "very verbose"? I will have to try harder :) > > > In the second case, I can perform some tests on my laptop. I've an Olicom > > GoCard Token-Ring PC Card (OC-3221) and I run 3.3-RELEASE. > > PCCards are not supported yet, AFAIK. 3.3-Release is a no-go, but you might prove or disprove that PCCards can be used on 4.x-current with ocenablar magic. Larry Lile lile@stdio.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message
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