Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:21:00 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop installations Message-ID: <199606181521.JAA01819@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199606181501.BAA01439@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> References: <199606181501.BAA01439@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
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> Laptops appear to be a significant installation nightmare .. unless you have > a CDROM or a full set of floppies you end up using the serial port (and > many, many hours). It's getting better, but things aren't great yet. > Maybe I've missed something but it seems that, by default, even though I have > this ethernet card plugged in the side of the machine, I have no way of > capitalising on the bandwidth of the T3 its default gateway's plugged into. If you have one of the two 'supported' cards for 2.1R (or some clones) then it will work fine. You do have one, I don't know about the other. > Are there any issues wrt having pcmcia slots enabled in the generic kernel ? > > I currently have a D-link (ne2000 compat?) installed but have had a 3c589 > with similar results .. the inabilty to use it, The 3C589 card is supported by *all* recent FreeBSD releases. However, 2.1R does not support the newer 3C589C cards (which were released *after* 2.1R). A simple patch to the driver allowed the newer cards to work so any of the newer SNAP floppies should work fine with the 3C589. However, you must configure the SRAM on the cards under DOS using the 3c589cfg.exe program supplied by 3COM and then read back *all* of the necessary information. Then, boot with '-c' and make sure FreeBSD's zp0 driver is configured with the same information. I've been using it for over a year now with my 3C589 cards. Nate
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