Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:59:32 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Greg Berenfield <gberenfield@berenfield.com> Cc: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: PCMCIA/PC-Card support Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010311359080.28745-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <C07C9808801FD31195E500A0CC407F7A1C4C8B@mail.berenfield.com>
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It only works with certain chipsets... look for "imp" in the people section of www.advogato.org ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Greg Berenfield wrote: > I remember searching the mailing-list earlier and saw that someone created a > patch for this driver to work in current..? > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kenneth Wayne Culver [mailto:culverk@wam.umd.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 11:58 AM > To: Potts, Ross > Cc: 'Greg Berenfield'; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: PCMCIA/PC-Card support > > > That card will be supported by the cardbus code once it's finished being > tested in -CURRENT. It will just use the if_xl driver for it's actual > driveer code, but there is no cardbus yet in -STABLE, so that's why it's > not being detected. > > > > ================================================================= > | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | > | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | > | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | > | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| > ================================================================= > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Potts, Ross wrote: > > > The 3C575, I can tell you about. The only drivers 3com buried (and > occasionally > > moves around) in their site are written for Linux. Since it's 3Com and > not one > > of the FBSD devotees that wrote the code, chances are you won't get the > source > > to port it. Maybe you can fudge with linux compatibility, I don't know > about > > that part > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg Berenfield [SMTP:gberenfield@berenfield.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:53 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: PCMCIA/PC-Card support > > > > Greetings, > > > > I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and recently installed it on my Dell 7500 > > laptop > > (previously installed it on a mini-tower for web-server role). > > > > I'm trying to use the following pcmcia cards on my laptop and have > had > > no > > luck under 4.1.1-REL and 5-current: > > > > 3c589 > > 3c575 > > 3crw737a (AirConnect wireless) > > > > The 3c589 (i think) should be the easiest one to get working but > under > > 4.1.1-rel when I assign it an ip address with ifconfig, the link > light > > on > > the card goes from solid to blinking - everything looks right (as > far as > > I > > can tell) > > > > Under 5-current, no luck with the 3c575 but I think that's due to > > ignorance > > (of a larger nature ;) > > For 5-current, I'm using the NEWCARD config file as a template but > am > > unsure > > of what drivers to comment/leave in place for cardbus support. > > Also I have little/no clue on the device.hints file and just copied > > NEWCARD.hints to /boot/device.hints (least my 5-current kernel boots > :). > > But beyond that, I can't tell where to put in 3c575 config info to > have > > it > > recognize the card; it detects the inset but gives the hex id info > but I > > need to tie that to the pccard.conf file? And should this file sit > in > > the > > /etc/default dir or go into /etc ? > > > > If there's any good reference docs for pcmcia/pccard support for > > 4.1.1-REL > > and/or 5-current, I'd love to know about them. > > > > I'm new to FreeBSD but already love the security and cvs-update > features > > over redhat linux (7.0 my prime motivator for the switch). PCMCIA > > support is > > my only gripe - it seems limited over redhat's driver support. > (Cardbus > > being the limit I guess). > > > > Any/all help greatly appreciated! > > > > Greg B. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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