Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:50:06 +1000 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: erich@ucsd.edu Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC-Card controller info + more now Message-ID: <39FA22BE.407D6A8C@quake.com.au> References: <39EFD529.D0D11971@quake.com.au> <39F05A02.DAEF71DD@ucsd.edu> <39F0FE57.2344E75A@quake.com.au> <39F104E2.84248708@quake.com.au> <39F114AD.CDD20904@ucsd.edu> <39F11B80.42A7F7DB@quake.com.au> <39F1200C.F55A0AFB@ucsd.edu> <39F14BB7.3F6BC8D4@quake.com.au> <39F23451.355D6A0D@ucsd.edu> <39F6A6B6.B6C7A481@quake.com.au> <39F9AD57.814D0889@peregrine.com>
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Hmmm... The card seems to work fine in windows using Full Duplex, yet in FreeBSD it only ususes Simplex... There is a linux driver for the card on its disk... Is there anyway I can use that in FreeBSD? Eric Hedstrom wrote: > > Hmm, I was hoping someone else would have responded by now. To put your > PCCard controller in polling mode you set its IRQ to 0 in your kernel > config file thus: > > device pcic0 at isa? irq 10 port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 > > becomes > > device pcic0 at isa? irq 0 port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 > > As for your communications problem, I don't know what to tell you. Some > people have had problems with these cards talking to specific kinds of > hubs. Maybe try connecting it directly to another machine with a crossover > cable and see if it'll talk that way. > > Eric Hedstrom > erich@ucsd.edu > > Kal Torak wrote: > > > > Thanks for all your help, > > I fixed the time out problem with the program from that site, > > altho the mod it suggested to the kernel just make everything > > screw up... > > > > Anyway, I can finally give the pc-card an ip address and it > > can ping other comps on the network, but nothing can ping it, > > its very strange... Its apparently running in Simplex mode > > according to ifconfig, yet I selected Full Duplex... > > > > Any Idea what I can do? > > > > Also I couldnt find that polling mode thing, but thats not > > really very high on my list of priorities when I cant get 2 > > way communication happening... > > > > Thanks! > > Kal. > > > > unsafe at any speed wrote: > > > > > > You said you had an interrupt conflict? You can run the pcic (cardbus > > > controller) in polling mode so that it doesn't need an IRQ. I don't remember > > > the syntax in the kernel config offhand, but it should be easy to find by > > > searching -mobile. > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > Kal Torak wrote: > > > > > > > > unsafe at any speed wrote: > > > > > > > > > > There has been a series of messages about that error with the D-link and > > > > > Netgear cards on the -mobile list. see... > > > > > > > > > > http://webperso.easynet.fr/fonvi/fa410tx.html or > > > > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/last-netgear.html > > > > > > > > > > eric > > > > > > > > > > Kal Torak wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I have worked out USB is conflicting with something now that > > > > > > pccard is being detected... > > > > > > I can boot now with USB disabled... I dont need it anyway, > > > > > > Finally it is detecting the card, but I cant get the card > > > > > > working now :( > > > > > > Its a D-Link ethernet card "DFE-650" > > > > > > It seems to be detected as ed1 which is strange since I dont > > > > > > have an ed0... > > > > > > When I try to start it with ifconfig I get a message > > > > > > /kernel: ed1: device timeout > > > > > > > > > > > > I am just using the generic kernel, in fact I just installed > > > > > > it again because I had been messing with so many config > > > > > > files I had forgotten what I had done... Figured I better > > > > > > try a clean install, but no good... > > > > > > Dunno what to do now... > > > > > > > > Grrrrr... Why me? > > > > Oh well maybe I will just upgrade to 4.1 or something... > > > > But then again I will have to config my kernel at some > > > > point, I guess I may as well do it now... > > > > > > > > Any ideas on how to get USB working at the same time as > > > > PC-Card's? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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