Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 08:26:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: boia01@gel.usherb.ca, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: D-Link ethernet and Thinkpad Message-ID: <199806051526.IAA01226@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jun 1998 12:46:10 %2B0200." <199806051046.MAA11282@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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> > i think i have had the same problem. I have a no-name card which > presents itself as IC-CARD IC-CARD, but some of the drivers on the disk > refer to the DE-650 so i suppose it is almost a clone. > This card (at least mine) does not have auto media select, and defaults to > using the UTP media. There is a dos/windows program which allows you to > set the media. It is fairly short (about 1KB) so i am looking at it. > > All it seems to do is toggle one bit in some of the card's registers. > However, it appears to do it in a fairly complicated way, by banging > bits in some of the PCIC register. Maybe some of this functionality is > already duplicated in pccardc/pccardd but i am not (yet) familiar with > this code... > > so, our only option thus far is to switch to windows, run the program, > and hope that the configuration is persistent :) This card isn't one that you can prise open, is it? I have a "Danpex" card here which is fairly trivial to open, using a Tamerack chip. It does auto media selection, so I've never bothered to go further than that, but it might be feasible to get documentation for some of the more common PCCARD 'net chips and write some grubby-little-hack programs to do this... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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