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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 960501 if_ep.c for 3c589?
Date: 1 Jun 1996 04:51:31 +0100
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Nick Sayer (nsayer@quack.kfu.com) wrote:
: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:

: >I am about to upgrade my laptop to 2.2-960501-SNAP. Trouble is, it appears
: >that the 960501 version of if_ep.c does not have pccard
: >support. This seems a bit odd since the laptop has pccard-test-960207
: >on it which has a perfectly good pccard compatable if_ep.c.
: >I could use if_zp.c, I suppose, but that driver doesn't know
: >anything about the "new" pccardd way of doing things, which means it
: >won't hot-plug.

: >There are substantial enough diffs between the 960501 if_ep.c and
: >the one from the pccard-test suite seem substantial enough that I
: >haven't tried just substituting it.

: >Am I missing something here?

: Yup. I was missing pccard-test-960508. See
: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/freebsd-pcmcia/

: I now have a more or less functional pccard system!

: I say more or less because everything stops working if I suspend
: and then resume the machine. Bummer.

APM still doesn't seem to work, but I think work is in progress.  You
should be using the 'nep' driver rather than the 'ep' driver.


--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....