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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!fizban.solace.mh.se!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Trying to get NEC Versa/P75 & PCMCIA (Ethernet) working... Date: 2 Feb 1996 17:47:34 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 51 Message-ID: <4etinm$cu6@helena.MT.net> References: <4epkla$44j@nkosi.well.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net Keywords: PCMCIA, Ethernet, FreeBSD In article <4epkla$44j@nkosi.well.com>, Hugh Daniel <hugh@well.sf.ca.us> wrote: > > I am having problems with getting the PCMCIA Ether card I have >working under FreeBSD on my hardware. I once ran across someone else >successfully using my hardware/software configuration and before >crawling down into the kernel to debug the problem, I thought I would >check to see if anyone else has dealt with this problem. That was probably me, since you have the same hardware I was running and recommend. :) (Actually, I had a 3C589B, but they are discontinued and I believe the only difference between the B and C is the connector.) > I have a NEC Versa P/75 notebook, running 2.1.0-RELEASE software and >a 3Com 3C589C PCMCIA Ether card. The current drivers do not seem to >see the card at boot, they might not even be seeing the PCMCIA driver >chips (Intel chipset I think), it's hard to tell. They should. Are you using the GENERIC kernel? Also, did you configure the card using the DOS software 3COM provided? You need to configure the card w/out card services for now until we get the more advanced PCCARD stuff working. Find out what IRQ, port, and memory port it is using (the latter can not be configured, you you can find it out by looking at the card information in the DOS utility). Once you know the port, IRQ, iomem area, boot the FreeBSD kernel with '-c' and configure the 'zp0' device to the same values and it should work. Also note that if you are using the BNC connector, you must use add -link0 to the ifconfig command. Unfortunately, FreeBSD can't auto-detect which connector to use, so you must choose for it. > As long as I am posting about Laptops and PCMCIA, last summer I herd >that there was a driver for one of the PCMCIA modem cards, can anyone >tell me anything about this? It's still work in progress. PHK did some work to integrate the code a group of developers in Japan (Nomad?) lead by Hosokawa Tatsumi, which they have updated a couple times since. I'm working on merging it into the newest code, but my other laptop (not the NEC, I should be getting that back next week hopefully) is having stability problems. It probably won't be part of the next release, but I hope to provide patches to merge it in. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth