Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:41:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Motonori Shindo <mshindo@ascend.co.jp> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Akia Tornado TX233 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117194033.11546A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199711180040.JAA00290@taurus.ascend.co.jp>
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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Motonori Shindo wrote: > Akia Tornado TX233 doen't come with any PCMCIA Ethernet card. I tried > the following two cards which I already had in hand: > > 1) IBM's Ethernet II > 2) 3Com's EtherLink III (3C589C Rev.D)) OOOoooh, I see now. Dooh! <:-) > > > One thing I'm not sure is that whether CardBus capability (Akia > > > Tornado TX233 does support CardBus!) doesn't affect the PCMCIA > > > Ethernet on FreeBSD or not. > > > > That is a good thing, actually; I've had a hell of a time getting Win95 > > machines with CardBus to pick up Ethernet cards. > > I started to install Win95 (OSR2.1) back to the machine. (Like most of > the *BSD people do, I have already wiped out the pre-installed > Win95:-)) Then I found that Akia Tornado TX233's PCMCIA doesn't work > with the stock Win95 PCMCIA driver. Presumably due to a CardBus > capability, it does require a newer version of PCMCIA/CardBus driver > in a floppy disk that comes with the box. Yup. Darn TI. > I haven't figured out what PCMCIA contoller it has, but now I feel > that I need a newer PCMCIA driver to get FreeBSD to work with Tornado > TX233. What is the status of the PCMCIA/CardBus driver development in > FreeBSD? I don't know, you'd have to ask the PAO people. They're on the front line vs. the stuff that comes with the system. 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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