Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:21:15 -0400 From: Ryan <rnw@wizard.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PCMCIA Etherlink III - 3C589C link problems Message-ID: <199608091421.KAA02072@sauron.wizard.net>
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I got the PCMCIA Etherlink III - 3C589C (aka zp0) for my laptop since it was supported. However I can not get the link light to go on. I an running 2.2 June/06 SNAP since it has the PCCARD support. The irq is 5 and mem is 300. However I am not sure about the momory at 0xd8000. The problem is that the 3C589C is too smart for its own good and it finds its own memory dynamically and counts on its device driver to tell the rest of the world where it's at. This can not be set statically from the DOS install disk. Therefor it is up to the PCCARD services to negotiate with it. I, evidently, don't know how to make this happen. BTW ifconfig appears to be able to set things up and teh kernel recognizes zp0 and gives the (I hope) correct ethernet address. And the link light works under DOS in the diagnostics. Changing the kernel's idea of the memory from 0xd8000 to 0xde000(as reported in the DOS diag tool) causes a kernel panic. Before I burn up more time on this has someone figured out how to set things up correctly? Thanks in advance John Ryan
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