Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:41:00 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: SimsS@IBM.Net Cc: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp, FreeBSD-Mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA PC-card installer test release Message-ID: <199701140111.LAA21628@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199701132024.UAA87535@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> from Steve Sims at "Jan 13, 97 03:23:53 pm"
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Steve Sims stands accused of saying: > I've got a "LinkSys Combo PCMCIA" Ethernet card. > > It emulates an NE-2000 perfectly, but this card fails initialization because > the PAO floppy doesn't know that it's a "virtual NE clone". > > What do I have to forward to you to get this card recognized? The output of "pccardc dumpcis" will probably be enough. > Second question: > I've tried various flavors of the PAO floppy on a couple of different Compaq > Laptops; a Contura Aero 4/33 and a LTE/Elite P-75. Both fail the sio probe > miserably. With whom should I coordinate to get Compaq's (proprietary, I > assume) SIO's to work with FreeBSD? Well, if you've tried increasing the delays in the 'sio' device probe routines and that didn't help, then you're going to have to either rip the Compaq open and send us the part numbers off all the chips, or pester Compaq for programming details. > ...sjs... -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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