From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 23 22:55:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 248B1106566C for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:55:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968818FC24 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (p57BCFEA3.dip.t-dialin.net [87.188.254.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q0NMsnsc054571; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:54:53 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q0NMtbK3077956; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:55:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0NMt68Q002840; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:55:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201201232255.q0NMt68Q002840@fire.js.berklix.net> To: imp@bsdimp.com, mobile@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/cv/ Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:55:06 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: Sam van Ratt Subject: How to get FreeBSD-8.2 to recognise pcmcia for ethernet on a libretto ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:55:04 -0000 Hi Warner (*) & FreeBSD mobile@ I'm trying to upgrade my Toshiba libretto from 4.11 to 8.2-RELEASE. The 8.2 Generic kernel with 4.11 tree of binaries boots OK (with device.hints, see URL above) & runs X11 OK; But the ed0 pcmcia card that 4.11 uses for ethernet, is not seen. All my configs & dmesg etc here: http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/toshiba/libretto/ I guess I need some magic for pcmcia ? (*) I had a note from Warner about 5.2.1 & YE-Data pcmcia cards (for floppy). PPS I could do a make world, But: That'd probably not get a working ethernet over pcmcia without same extra config magic, & killing my ethernet I'm trying to avoid as floppy drive & cdrom drive are both via a Single pcmcia slot. Beyond that its PLIP or SLIP - none are easy. I also failed to create an fdisk MBR with 2 boot partitions when I installed 4.11, just 1 big partition, hence I'm trying to establish if ethernet will work before running a make world. If it will work I'll backup & remove disk to another machine, & edit the MBR to allow more bootable FreeBSD slices. Ideas & tips & URLs welcome please, Thanks Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 01:09:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDA6106575B for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:09:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@diogunix.com) Received: from mail.kepos.org (mail.kepos.org [64.120.5.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FD18FC14 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:09:01 +0000 (UTC) From: "tom@diogunix.com" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:51:39 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201201240151.39362.tom@diogunix.com> Subject: Ricoh SD card reader issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:09:01 -0000 Hi @all, I recently got me a Thinkpad T510i with an internal Ricoh Card Reader and put FreeBSD 9 RELEASE on the new machine. Unfortunately it seems one cannot get a new device in /dev though loading sdhci / mmc / mmcsd modules I get messages via dmesg and /var/log/messages but no new device pops up (what device name is usually used ?) Searching the web, I found that (at least in 2009) TI obviously refused to reveal information to mav@freebsd.org who wanted to work on a workaround. Just now asking whether this state still is valid today. Any news on this ? kind regards Tom PS: Sometimes I believe the BSD community (and maybe Linux community) should try to establish sort of a "Unix-Ready" Certificate to force hardware sellers to make better products. This at least would help us to make better decisions when buying hardware. Regarding the increasing market share of Ubuntu, there might be some relevance for this for hardware manufacturers ;-)