Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:42:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ian Wood <wood@elec.uq.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stuck installing PAO on Acernote Light Message-ID: <19970905104238.09237@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199709041005.UAA00927@axon.elec.uq.edu.au>; from Ian Wood on Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 08:05:56PM %2B1000 References: <199709041005.UAA00927@axon.elec.uq.edu.au>
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On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 08:05:56PM +1000, Ian Wood wrote: > re: AcerNote Light - attempt to use with PAO > > Thankyou all for the quick and useful replies. > > I have had another go at it, but haven't got it working. > > Replying to Mike: >> Are you in a position to add/enable extra debugging in the pcic support > code? > > If you mean writing code - no I'm not up to it, unfortunately. > > As for enabling more debugging - I don't know how to. > I had a look through /usr/src/sys/pccard/pcic.c and found > a verbose boot message for CardBus systems. > My kernel doesn't produce it, so it probably isn't a CardBus > system. I was pretty sure of this already since Windows '95 > (which I have on another partition) identifies it as > a "Cirrus Logic PCIC compatible PCMCIA controller". > I guess this answers your other question. Yes, this isn't a CardBus system. > Replying to Greg: > > I had already seen a number of your messages after searching the > archives, but since you had a 3Com 3C589C (and I don't), they > didn't inspire much hope in me. That doesn't exactly make things better, but it's not a reason to abandon hope either. > I tried the newest 3.0-SNAP boot disk and was initially amazed to > see my cards CIS data read by both ze0 and zp0. > kernel reports: > ze: pcmcia slot 0: NetComm Ltd~CardModem336~ ~ ~ > ze: pcmcia slot 1: SMC~EtherEZ Ethernet 8020~V1.00~~ > ze0 not found at 0x300 > > Same messages for zp0. This is progress, anyway. > After a while I realised that ze0 & zp0 are not compatible with PAO, I don't understand. Don't they work at all with PAO? Can anybody else confirm? > and since they did not find the cards sufficiently well by themselves > 3.0 without PAO won't work either. > > This may prove something about the availability of the CIS data > on this machine though ? I think it shows that the software can detect your board, but it's not really happy with it. Which driver is correct for the SMC board? How about building a kernel with support just for this board, and at the I/O address that the board is set to? You may find PLIP invaluable in this phase, BTW :-) Greg
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