Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 08:34:22 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEWCARD Docs Message-ID: <20020307163422.C59225D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 2002 23:35:06 PST." <20020306233506.D69228@blossom.cjclark.org>
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> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:35:06 -0800
> From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
>
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:05:30PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <20020306171531.B69228@blossom.cjclark.org>
> > "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> writes:
> > : Are there some docs somewhere on how to get NEWCARD working? A CardBus
> > : NIC, an xl(4), much to my surprise Just Works(tm). (Well, now it does,
> > : the machine was panicing before. I'm not sure what I changed to make
> > : it stop.) However, my trusty old ep(4), a well worn Etherlink III
> > : 3C589D-COMBO which has served me well on -STABLE for years, doesn't
> > : seem to work at all. I'm not sure where to start and can't find any
> > : manpages on the new stuff. Am I on my own trying to figure out what is
> > : going on in src/sys/dev/pccard?
> >
> > There are no man pages on the new stuff.
> >
> > Maybe you could tell me what errors you are seeing :-)
> >
> > /me goes off and gets his 3c589{c,d,e} out of storage and sees what
> > they do.
>
> Well, it's pretty simple. I put in the card and it says,
>
> pccard0: Card has no functions!
> pccbb0: PC Card card activation failed
>
> My Megahertz XJ4336 modem PC Card gives the same result. Both cards
> work fine on two other -STABLE or -RELEASE machines with the old
> pccardd(8). The NIC worked fine in this notebook when it was
> temporarily running 4.4-RELEASE to bootstrap the build of
> -CURRENT. Oops... I have one more PC Card to try (geez, I got a bunch
> of these things)... Same results for a Xircom CreditCard PS-CE2-10
> (which finally kinda works in -STABLE).
>
> I haven't yet tried to build the OLDCARD on this machine. I'd like to
> use this CardBus card in it. But it'd be nice if the PC Card modem
> worked too (since the built-in is a WinModem).
While it has a few problems, the internal modem works pretty well for
me with ports/comms/mwavem/.
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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