From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Oct 22 00:03:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA11528 for mobile-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from u2.farm.idt.net (root@u2.farm.idt.net [169.132.8.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA11523 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:03:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garycorc@idt.net) Received: from idt.net (ppp-11.ts-1.mlb.idt.net [169.132.71.11]) by u2.farm.idt.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA09333 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 03:03:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <344DA4F4.3E902429@idt.net> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 03:02:12 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02b7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does 3C589D using ep0 need PAO? References: <344D9623.90B4E255@idt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary T. Corcoran wrote: > I've just bought my first notebook PC and I'm trying to get my > 3Com 3C589D ethernet card going. <...> > For now, I just have one simple question: > If I want to use the "ep0" driver with pccardd, do I, or do > I _not_ need to get the PAO patches for the 3C589D? > My -mobile archives seemed to show different opinions on > this question! I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.5 (BETA from Saturday). > > Okay, how about one more question: is the "driver allocation > failed" message indicative of a simple known problem? > Sorry folks. I accidentally made an IRQ conflict when I compiled my custom kernel. Removing the IRQ conflict made the above problem go away (sound familiar, anybody? ;-) (I knew I should've gone to bed earlier...) After changing the 'link' flags, I get a green light, and I can ping my other PC now! Now if only the XFree86 folks can get me going with X - the video chip in my machine is too new and is not (directly) supported... At least we now know that you _don't_ need the PAO patches with 2.2.5 on the new Toshiba's... Good night! Gary