Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:07:47 -0800 (PST) From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: pst@shockwave.com Subject: Re: PC CARD stuff Message-ID: <m0vXjhj-0008wVC@agora.rdrop.com> In-Reply-To: <199612101408.GAA01396@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Dec 10, 96 06:08:07 am
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> From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:00:01 -0800
> Subject: Re: need help with a PC CARD NE2000 clone...
>
> I'm thinking of going out and getting one of the 3COM 3c589 cards
> and a Megahertz 3811 cellular modem, but the combo is /not/ cheap.
I got the 3com 3c589 to use in a Toshiba 115cs as a cheap portable net
monitor. Lo, it won't go into promiscuous mode, so it's not a very useful
net monitor. It also seems to have performance problems, but I haven't
characterized them, so can't say if that's real or not. When I get back,
I'll be looking for a card that is more suitable.
For modem, I'm using a Motorola Montana ("named after the state with no
speed limits") card right now; I got the one with the cable for my
Motorola cell phone just in time for my trip to IETF (you've been trying
to get your net working here, and I've been trying to get the modem
working, with about the same luck :-) ). I'm using it under Windoze so
I can get my mail, but via land line, as I don't want to experiment with
the cellular link at $1/min roaming charges... pccard seems to want to
put it at 2e8, and I only have sio0/1 configured in, so my next attempt
will be to build the kernel with sio0-3 and see if that helps. Also,
I notice that it's truncating the card identifier (damn, no !grep
/etc/pccard here!, so no example till I get back home), though ktrace
shows it's getting the whole thing.
BTW, I'll probably be in rtfm and rps tomorrow; then I head back to
Portland... perhaps we'll run into each other?
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