Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 23:40:19 +0900 (JST) From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2-BETA PC-card installer test release Message-ID: <199701131440.XAA09593@lenlen.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp>
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FreeBSD 2.2-BETA PC-card installer (test release) ftp://ryukyu.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-PAO-flp Please test it! Tatsumi Hosokawa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FreeBSD 2.2-BETA PC-card Installer Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org> BSD-nomads team, Japan 1. What's this floppy? The kernel and sysinstall of this floppy includes PAO PC-card package for FreeBSD. You can install FreeBSD with this floppy from various PC-cards (Ethernet, Modem, ISDN, SCSI CDROM, ATAPI CDROM, etc.). This floppy is based on FreeBSD 2.2-BETA and PAO-970112. Therefore, supported cards are same as the cards supported by PAO-970112. See the list at the end of this file for details. PAO is a package that supports moble computing on FreeBSD. Part of old PAO packages have been incorporated into original FreeBSD souce tree, and now also the code in this package is waiting for integration. Part of codes in PAO has been less reviewed and it includes some experimental (pre-alpha level) codes that is not suited to be incorported into the original source tree at current status, but PAO is more useful and support more card compared to current FreeBSD PC-card suppot. 2. PC-card Basics To use this floppy, you have to know at least some basic ideas of PC-card architecture. PC-card uses I/O port, IRQ, and shared memory like many ISA devices, but the address and IRQ level are dynamically allocated by a special hardware called PC-card controller (or PC-card bridge). Each PC-card slot has eight memory windows, two I/O windows and a unnumbered IRQ line. PC-card controller maps these resources onto ISA or PCI space. PC-card can be controlled by CPU like ordinaly ISA devices because this mapping function works transparently. (All memory windows and I/O Window 1 are unused) +---------+ +------------+ / | |--------------------| |-----------/ ISA BUS | Modem | I/O Window 0 | PC-card | 3f8 - 3ff / | PC-card |--------------------| Controller |-----------/ | |<==================>| |<=========>/ +---------+ unnumbered IRQ +------------+ IRQ 3 / fig.1 Modem card is mapped as a serial chip on ISA bus To determine the value of these parameters, operating system uses "CIS (Card Information Structure) tupples" described in EEPROM memory in the cards. Operating system gets this information also via PC-card controller. PC-card controller requires 16 kilobytes of memory address for this purpose (it maps EEPROM memory onto this area). You can read these data by typing "/stand/pccardc dumpcis" from command prompt after the installation. A sample output of "/stand/pccardc dumpcis" follows. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuple #6, code = 0x1b (Configuration entry), length = 16 000: e0 41 99 49 55 26 25 aa 60 f8 03 07 30 ff ff 28 Config index = 0x20(default) Interface byte = 0x41 (I/O) +RDY/-BSY active Vcc pwr: Nominal operating supply voltage: 5 x 1V Continuous supply current: 2 x 100mA Power down supply current: 2 x 10mA Card decodes 10 address lines, 8 Bit I/O only I/O address # 1: block start = 0x3f8 block length = 0x8 IRQ modes: Level IRQs: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Max twin cards = 0 Misc attr: (Audio-BVD2) (Power down supported) Tuple #7, code = 0x1b (Configuration entry), length = 7 000: 21 08 aa 60 f8 02 07 Config index = 0x21 Card decodes 10 address lines, 8 Bit I/O only I/O address # 1: block start = 0x2f8 block length = 0x8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- fig.2 Sample CIS tupples (part of CIS in Megahertz XJ3288) This floppy uses 0xd0000-0xd3ffff for this scratch area by default, but if your hardware uses this area for other purposes, you can select another addresses (0xd4000, 0xd8000, and 0xdc000) from the first menu of this floppy. If you're uncertain of the detailed spec of your hardware, proceed without selecting optional values, and test other options after it causes any problems :-). 0xd0000 is appropreate value on most laptop hardware. There's another additional menu about PC-card in this floppy. The second menu is used to choose the free IRQ pool for PC-cards. PC-card requires a free IRQ that is not used by other devices. Operating system must manages free IRQ pool for this purpose. You can choose this free IRQ pool from the menu. The default is IRQ 10 and 11. Please note that there are some machines that have sound card which occupies IRQ 10 (and too bad that can't be probed by installation floppy, of course). If you have such machines, you can't use IRQ 10 for this purpose. IRQ 5 and 11 would be good alternative, but use IRQ 11 only if you have another devices which occupies IRQ 5. 3. FreeBSD installation note If you want to use PC-card after the installation is finished, you must recompile kernel with PC-card support. Therefore, you *MUST* install kernel sources. This floppy automatically adds "src/ssys" (kernel sources) distribution on "User" and "X-User" distribution sets, but if you want to install "minimum" distributsion set or if you want to choose distribution by yourself, you have to add "src/ssys" distribution to distribution set manually. 4. After installation If you installed 2.2-BETA with this floppy, you can install PAO kernel without getting PAO package from net or CDROM. This floppy installs PAO patches in /stand/PAO/sys, /etc files in /stand/PAO/etc, and pccardd (PC-card daemon) and pccardc (PC-card controller) in /stand, respectively. Moreover, you can recompile PAO kernel from "Config" menu of /stand/sysinstall. When you've installed FreeBSD with this floppy and reboot the machine, log in the machine as root user and execute /stand/sysinstall. You can recompile and install PAO kernel from the menu of this installer. Select the "PC-card" in "Config" menu of sysinstall. Note that these operations have to be done just after the system is installed. Especially if you've made any patches onto kernel sources, these operations may fail. Please do it as soon as possible. If you have selected non-default parameters for PC-card controller scratch memory or PC-card free IRQ pool, please modify the following paramters manually (sorry, this can't be done automatically now). PC-card controller memory --> "pccardmem" in /etc/sysconfig Free IRQ pool for PC-cards --> "irq" in /etc/pccard.conf The FAQ list of PAO is placed at /stand/PAO/doc/PAO-FAQ. Please read it before asking us about your problems. Many typical questions are answered in this file. I recommend you to replaace pccardd, pccardc, shutdown, and apm commands with newer ones included in PAO package. You can found PAO package and information at PAO Webpage (http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/PAO/) and PAO anonymous FTP server (ftp://ryukyu.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD/PAO/). Let's enjoy mobile computing with FreeBSD! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix: PAO-970112 Supported Cards ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Type Card Status Driver ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethernet 3Com Etherlink III 3C589 OK ep 3Com Etherlink III 3C589B OK ep 3Com Etherlink III 3C589C OK ep Accton EN2212 OK ed Accton EN2216 OK ed ADDTRON EP-210A OK ed Contec C-NET(PC)C OK fe Dayna Communications CommuniCard E OK ed Digital DEPCM-BA Ethernet OK ed D-link DE-650 Ethernet Card OK ed D-link DE-653 Ethernet Card OK ed Eiger Labs EPX-ET10T2 Combo OK ed Farallon EtherMac OK ep Fujitsu FMV-J181 OK fe Fujitsu FMV-J182 OK fe Fujitsu FMV-J182A OK fe Genius ME3000II Ethernet OK ed GVC NIC-2000P Ethernet Card OK ed Hitachi HT-4840-11 OK fe IBM Creditcard Ethernet I OK ed IBM Creditcard Ethernet II OK ed IC-card Ethernet OK ed IO-DATA PCMCIA PCLA/T Ethernet Card OK ed Laneed PCMCIA Ethernet Card ELECOM LD-CDWA OK ed Megahertz Ethernet Adapter OK sn Megahertz X-Jack Ethernet OK sn Melco LPC-T OK ed National Semiconductor InfoMover 4100 OK ed NDC Instant-Link OK ed NextCom J Link NC5310 OK fe Panasonic CF-VEL211P-B OK ed PLANET Smart Com 2000 OK ed PLANET Smart Com 3500 OK ed PreMax PE-200 OK ed RATOC REX-5588 OK fe *1 RATOC REX-9821 OK fe RATOC REX-9821 OK fe TDK LAK-CD021A OK fe Wireless LAN AT&T GIS WaveLAN OK wlp *2 Digital RoamAbout/DS OK wlp *2 FAX/Modem Virtually all modem card should work sio *3 (but it still does not work on some machines...) Alpha-testers reported that they can use the following cards. AIWA PV-JF144 OK sio AIWA PV-JF288 OK sio APEX DATA Mobile Plus V.34 OK sio APEX Data Multicard (as modem) OK sio Dell Dacom Modem/FAX V32.bis OK sio Fujitsu FMV-JMD712 OK sio GATEWAY2000 MODEM OK sio Hayes OPTIMA 144 OK sio Hayes OPTIMA 288 V.34 OK sio IBM Push/Pop Modem OK sio IO Data PCFM144 FAX/Modem OK sio Lasat Credit 288, V34 Data/Fax Modem OK sio Megahertz XJ1144 OK sio Megahertz XJ2144 OK sio Megahertz XJ2144 (JP) OK sio Megahertz XJ2288 OK sio Megahertz XJ3288 (JP) OK sio Megahertz XJEM1144 (as modem) OK sio MEGASOFT STARFAX CARD 288 OK sio Mitsubishi B8899 Fax Modem OK sio NewMedia FAX/Modem 14.4K OK sio NextCom NCM1428JA FAX/Data Modem OK sio NOTEWORTHY NW288CR OK sio Novalink NovaModem 144 OK sio NTT-IT ThunderCard AVF288 OK sio OMRON ME2814 Fax/Modem OK sio OMRON MD24XCA Fax/Modem OK sio Panasonic CF-JMD101 OK sio Panasonic MODEM SCSI Card CF-JMS101 (as modem) OK sio Panasonic TO-CAF288 OK sio PREMAX FM288 OK sio Smart ST1414L Fax/Voice/Modem OK sio Software Japan Tsunagu-V34 OK sio SUNTAC MS288CF OK sio TDK DF1414 OK sio TDK DF1414EX OK sio TDK DF2814B OK sio TDK DF2814B/M OK sio TDK DF3314BZ OK sio TDK GlobalNetworker 3410 (as modem) OK sio US Robotics Sportster PCMCIA V.34 OK sio *4 US Robotics COURIER PCMCIA V.34 OK sio *4 ISDN BUG Linkboy D64K OK sio BUG Linkboy D128 OK sio NEC Aterm IC20 OK sio Digital Cellular APEX Data Mobile Plus Celluar V.34 OK sio Nokia cellular data card DTP-2 Ok sio Nokia cellular data card DTP-8 Ok sio NTT DoCoMo DATA/FAX Adapter OK sio NTT DoCoMo DATA/FAX Adapter Mark II OK sio SUNTAC DIGITAL MODEM/FAX OK sio GPS Receiver SONY PACY-CNV10 OK sio FM-Radio Card Panasonic CF-JVR101 OK sio *6 SCSI Adaptec SlimSCSI APA-1460 OK aic NewMedia BusToaster OK aic RATOC REX-5535AC OK spc RATOC REX-5535AMC OK spc RATOC REX-5535X OK spc RATOC REX-5535XM OK spc SONY PRD-250 CD-ROM Diskman OK aic Flash ATA Virtually all Flash ATA card should work wdc *3 Alpha-testers reported that they can use the following cards. Epson Flash Packer 5MB OK wdc Epson Flash Packer 20MB OK wdc Epson Flash Packer 40MB OK wdc Epson Flash Packer 85MB OK wdc HP F1012A OK wdc IBM IBM17JSSFP10 OK wdc IO Data Flash Packer 10MB OK wdc Midori Elec. Fast Flash OK wdc Ricoh ATA 10MB OK wdc SunDisk SPD5-5 OK wdc SunDisk SPD5-20 OK wdc SunDisk SPD-40 OK wdc ATA HDD Virtually all ATA HDD card should work wdc *3 Alpha-testers reported that they can use the following cards. Epson America Inc. EHDD170 OK wdc IBM 105MB PCMCIA Hard Disk Drive OK wdc Maxtor MobileMax MXL131 OK wdc Mitsubishi M6887-3 170MB OK wdc External HDD Adapter Alpha Data Pocket Harddisk AD-PCH340 OK wdc GREYSTONE DiskDock OK wdc ATAPI CD-ROM Caravelle Data Systems CD620Emk2 (PSC-IDE) OK wdc DEC Digital Mobile Media OK wdc *5 I/O DATA CD-ROM PCMCIA IDE CARD OK wdc Video Capture IBM Smart Capture Card OK scc IBM Smart Capture Card II OK scc ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *1 I received a report that it worked, but couldn't use this card on my machine. CIS tupples are different from his card, and I adjusted config indices to the card I got, but I received only error messages "fe0: cannot empty receive buffer" and "fe0: transmission timeout (1+0)". If you have this card, please send report to me! *2 These cards are supported by 2.2-SNAP only. *3 Some cards or laptops needs modifications to /etc/pccard.conf, and some combinations of cards and laptops do not work. *4 But, there are also some reports that US Robotics Modem cards can't be used with this package. *5 This CD-ROM has PCIC in it, so it can't be hotplugged. And, ATAPI CDROM is supported by 2.2-SNAP only. *6 Currently, no client application software is available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- $Id: pccard.hlp,v 1.7 1997/01/13 10:31:09 hosokawa Exp hosokawa $ -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org
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