From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jun 19 0:49:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B9B37B669; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:49:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id e5J7nf987251 ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:49:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr ([134.157.10.102]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id JAA19339 ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:49:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from michel@localhost) by rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00457; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:49:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michel) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:49:41 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: FreeBSD mobile , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE, Netgear FA410TXC, device timeout Message-ID: <20000619094941.A429@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD mobile , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000617225842.A36405@vobiscum.styx.org> <20000618164044.A9791@stat.Duke.EDU> <20000618202944.F9791@stat.Duke.EDU> <00061823431800.00793@icarus.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <00061823431800.00793@icarus.tiac.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 11:35:24PM -0400, peterg wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Sean O'Connell wrote: > > Sean O'Connell stated: > > > > > In the case of the Netgear card, if_ed is broken. I have attempted > > > to help two people off-line trying to use these cards, and in both > > > cases, they _never_ worked. These were on truly free IRQs (usually > > > irq 3 with COM2 disabled in the BIOS and not even in the kernel config > > > file). In both cases, replacing "device ed0 at isa?.." with just > > > "device ed" really only was a cosmetic fix to change ed1 timeouts to > > > ed0 timeouts. These cards just plain do not work as is. > > > > > > if_ed is also badly broken for the Linksys PCMP100. ..... > > I was 1 of those 2 people who received extensive off-line guidance and help from > Sean on getting the FA410 to work. We were not succesfull. > At first it was simple basic stuff like making sure to recompile w/ pccard > support etc.. After which the ep0 driver worked great w/ the 3COM 589 series > of cards at 10Mbps. However the ed0 driver we never were able to get going w/ > the 2 models of 10/100 cards we had, the FA410TX and the D-Link 660. As far as the D-Link 660 is concerned, first mine works OK on FreeBSD 4.0-Stable and has always worked, and second, mine is not a Cardbus card. Jun 19 09:35:52 rose pccardd[43]: Card "D-Link"("DE-660") matched "D-Link" ("DE-660") Jun 19 09:35:53 rose apmd[136]: start Jun 19 09:35:57 rose /kernel: ed1 at port 0x240-0x25f irq 3 slot 1 on pccard1 Jun 19 09:35:57 rose /kernel: ed1: supplying EUI64: 00:80:c8:ff:fe:ba:87:88 Jun 19 09:35:57 rose /kernel: ed1: address 00:80:c8:ba:87:88, type NE2000 (16 bit) Jun 19 09:35:57 rose pccard:ed1: D-Link DE-660 inserted Jun 19 09:35:58 rose /kernel: ed1: starting DAD for fe80:0002::0280:c8ff:feba:8788 Jun 19 09:35:58 rose pccardd[43]: pccardd started Jun 19 09:35:59 rose /kernel: ed1: DAD complete for fe80:0002::0280:c8ff:feba:8788 - no duplicates found The performance moreover is very good for a 10 Mb/s card. > Granted the D-Link 660 is a 32 bit Cardbus, but I did get help back from a > couple of folks who claimed it should work as a 16bit PCMCIA 10/100. > We are now content w/ the 3Com cards and ep0 at 10Mbps. > > --P > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message