Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:58:39 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SVEC NE2000 "clone" doom and gloom Message-ID: <199801240428.OAA01309@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:03:31 -0800." <m0xvwpj-0002WtC@jli.com>
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> Mike Smith writes: > > "make" in usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd fails, so I am not going to bother > > unless I get the rest of this sorted out. > > Bleagh. Try going up a directory. > > Tried that once, no luck. To be precise (in case anyone cares): > > cc -O -I/mnt/usr/src/usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd -I/mnt/usr/src/usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd/../pccardc -Wall -g -static -Wall -g -static -c /mnt/usr/src/usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd/cardd.c > /mnt/usr/src/usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd/cardd.c: In function `slot_change': > /mnt/usr/src/usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd/cardd.c:232: `suspend' undeclared (first use this function) Your copy of <pcccard/cardinfo.h> is stale. > > ed_probe_WD80x3, which hangs computing the ether address PROM > > checksum(???). It doesn't even manage to read the first byte. > > When you say "doesn't even manage to read the first byte", what happens? > Is this a software bug (spinning forever), or a hardware bug (read from > card locks machine?). > > The latter. Yecch. I guess it's possible that the card is waitstating the system forever; what happens if you pull the card out in that state? > I take it that you tried removing the call to ed_probe_WD80x3() in order to > determine that the NE2000 probe fails? > > No, it's that defining TOSH_ETHER causes ed_probe_WD80x3 to not hang. Maybe I > should just try enabling that first power-on of the card, and not the rest of > TOSH_ETHER? Unlikely. It sounds as though the power-on pokes something inside the SVEC card that makes it wake up. > the Danpex card I use at the moment is actually quite easy to open up. If > yours is the same.... > > No way, I don't even see *how* it opens up. I'd rather be able to get my money > back. Gotcha. If you have that option, take it. > Oh boy, my big chance to see Fry's "service" in action.... Heh. Keep me posted; I fear I'll be seeing too much of the inside of one of those places soon. -- \\ 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. \\
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