Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:35:39 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Steve Roome <steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com> Cc: behanna@zbzoom.net, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jim@siteplus.net Subject: Re: 4.1-RELEASE pccard? Message-ID: <200010031735.LAA27686@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 2000 18:29:26 BST." <20001003182926.M1786@moose.bri.hp.com> References: <20001003182926.M1786@moose.bri.hp.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010031059520.29703-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> <200010031528.JAA26440@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20001003182926.M1786@moose.bri.hp.com> Steve Roome writes: : I know what the MAC address is supposed to be! I've been through all : of the cards attribute memory but can't find it. It was about a month : back now, but the only MAC address that works was not anywhere within : the cards memory that I could see. I recall seeing a syntax for this in pccardd. Hmmm, hold I while I check... OK. Looks like normal FreeBSD's ether statement doesn't allow one to directly set the NIC address. : That doesn't make a lot of sense to me, as surely it has to either be : in there somewhere or perhaps (unlikely?) coded somehow, but I : certainly couldn't find it at all. Which is why I opted for the nasty : hack. For the Ed cards (ne-2000 and clones), the NIC address is usually in a ROM that the NIC chip reads and presents to the driver writer in a number of I/O ports (yes, I'm being vague, because the details vary somewhat). : I know it looks really stupid, but honestly I didn't step lightly into : hardcoding my MAC address before really trying very hard to use the : ether offset option! I understand that. I'm just trying to understand the type of card that you have. : I'll give anything else a go to find it properly as I'd rather have a : less ugly hack... Although... the net card itself had a dodgy cable : converter (the thing that goes from RJ45 <-> PCcard-whatever it is 15 : pin connector) so I've soldered a RJ45 female connector directly onto : the pccard pcb. I wasn't expecting this to work as I've not got the : most precise soldering iron! Hmmm, well, I wouldn't laugh at that. You should see one of my 3C589D's that does exactly the same thing. It even works, so long as I don't move it too much. : Stop laughing! It's been on 24/7 for a month since with no problems : other than a dieing LCD screen. It makes a great router/mail server at : home. I've often thought about doing this myself. The trouble is that I don't have a spare laptop to dedicate to this. I just moved my router world over to a tiny 486DX2 (amd) from a large 486DX2-66 (intel). The tiny system takes up less space than most laptops, except maybe a libretto 50CT! Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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