Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:05:05 -0500 From: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCMCIA Qs: 2 NICs & new pccard.conf entry Message-ID: <3A5DD9B1.C6842356@babbleon.org> References: <3A5D3979.C0B0D2EF@babbleon.org>
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My apologies. I was clearly unclear. First, I'm getting mailing list messages now. For some reason I never got them when I subscribed to freebsd-questions (which was ok since it is gateway to a newsgroup), but it's working for freebsd-mobile. I have two 3com cards, but not two identical 3com cards--I had already figured that two identical cards was asking for trouble so I deliberately avoided that. To make this clear, here is the /etc/pccard.conf file I created. The first two entries are the two cards I'm trying to get working on my gateway/firewall. They seem to work fine by themselves, and are simply copies of the "standard" entries from /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, only with the IRQs updated so as not to conflict. But whenever I insert both cards I get a message that there's a resource conflict and the second one doesn't "take." The third entry is the Linksys entry I created. It's like the Linksys entries in the /etc/defaults file but with the strings updated. The updated strings work fine; the card is now recognized but it says "CIS was not found" when I insert it. # This is the Cable-modem card I got. # 3Com Etherlink III 3CXE589EC # 3Com Etherlink III 3CXE589ET card "3Com" "Megahertz 589E" # config 0x1 "ep" ? # config auto "ep" ? config 0x1 "ep" 3 insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop # This is the 3com card with the huge dongle. # 3Com Etherlink III 3C589B, 3C589C card "3Com Corporation" "3C589" # config 0x1 "ep" ? # config auto "ep" ? # config auto "ep" ? config 0x1 "ep" 9 insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start -link0 link1 # insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start link0 -link1 remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop # This is the Linksys card I have, with the fat holder. card "Linksys" "EtherFast 10&100 + 56K PC Card (PCMLM56)" config 0x1 "ed" ? insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop The Babbler wrote: > > [I posted this to freebsd-questions a couple days ago but no response so > far. > Also, even though I'm getting confirmation messages for my > subscriptions, I'm > not actually receiving mail for some reason so please include a directy > reply > to me.] > > I'm having some PCMCIA troubles trying to get FreeBSD going on a laptop. > > BACKGROUND: I prefer FreeBSD in general; I even ran it on a laptop in > 1996 or so (I didn't use PCMCIA at the time, so the laptop wasn't a big > issue), but switched to Linux the next year when I got a new computer > that had hardware that FreeBSD didn't support. For multiple reasons, > I'd like to switch back. > > PROBLEM #1: On my firewall machine, which is my old laptop, I want to > use two PCMCIA NICs; FreeBSD seems to basically not believe that one > might want to use two PCMCIA NICs at all. With the help of a local > FreeBSD expert we worked around the FreeBSD scripts for PCMCIA set up > so that we could configure two PCMCIA NICs in terms of having different > IP addresses for them and such. > > However, we can't really get that far because the second card (whichever > one it is) refuses to configure becuase of a "resource conflict." I > found the card data base (pccard.conf) and updated it so that I specify > explicit IRQs that dont' conflict. (I booted Linux and picked the IRQs > that it uses); however, it still says that there is a resource conflict. > The message isn't specific, but there doesn't seem to be any way to > configure > the memory range, so I'm guessing that's the conflict. Any ideas? > > PROBLEM #2: On my "main" machine, I have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 + > 56K card. I made a first stab at creating the PC Card entry for this, > but my first try didn't work. Linux says it's NE2000 compatible, but > then it says the same thing about every PCMCIA NIC I've ever tried. > Anyway, any ideas about how to go about this? Is there doc on how to > write > a new pccard.conf entry (that is, how to figure out the proper > parameters) > that I might have missed? > > -- > "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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