Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:34:54 EDT From: rondzierwa@juno.com (Ron Dzierwa) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: PCMCIA on FreeBSD2.2.1 Message-ID: <19970729.164516.11567.0.RonDzierwa@juno.com>
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Dear Hackers, I recently installed 2.2.1 on an Ergo Powerbrick 100 Notebook computer and had some questions regarding the PCMCIA support. The hardware compatibility list indicates that the 3Com 3c589 pcmcia ethernet is supported, as well as the adaptec AIC-6360 pcmcia scsi controller both of which I have installed and tested using dos/windows drivers and even NT 3.51. I am having problems getting them to work under FreeBSD 2.2.1 however, and hoped somebody there could help. The 3Com card I have is NOT a combo card, but it is the `D" version which is mentioned in the HARDWARE.TXT file on the distribution as possibly being supported in the new generic PCMCIA code but there is little/no documentation on how to set it up. I was hoping that somebody could give me some hints as to how to set this up so I could muddle around with it until it is better supported. Also, the computer uses a DataBook DB86082 PCMCIA controller chip. I looked thru the PCMCIA support code and did not find any mention of this chip, so I am wondering if it is supported. I have the data sheets and some diagnostic/test/development software for the chip (runs under dos), so I would be willing to put some work into adding support for the chip to the existing PCMCIA code if necessary. Regarding the scsi controller, the driver in the generic kernel seems to be able to find it when booting from the CDROM using fbsdboot, but shortly thereafter the system hangs up. I believe that it could find the scsi controller because I was booting from dos and the pcmcia controller was still set up from the dos driver. This leads me back to the PCMCIA support code. So I guess what I am asking is: - How to setup/configure the `D' version of the 3c589 - Is my PCMCIA chip supported at all? - How to configure the AIC-6360 driver to work with the PCMCIA chip. Any answers, hints, or even guesses would be deeply appreciated. Thanks, ron
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