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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:28:20 +0900 (JST)
From:      Arizona Coyote <coyote@ratbert.aisol.net>
To:        Adolfo Pisa <adolfo@pentia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ETHERLINK III PCMCIA Card dosent works.
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.970917092210.2384A-100000@ratbert>
In-Reply-To: <341E4DB2.41C67EA6@pentia.com>

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Hi,

Since no one has answered this one yet, I'll take a crack at it.  The
FreeBSD docs for 2.2.2 indicate the that 3c589D is not supported.
Appartently, 3Com made some significant changes in the D-version of the
card.

The PAO patches should work with this card and 2.2.2 however.  At least it
is listed as being supported.

   http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/

Another alternative is to upgrade to 3.0 which includes support for your
card.  I also have a 3c589D on my Thinkpad and so I just went for 3.0. The
boot floppy recognized my card and it installed without any problems.
Works great for me.

Finally, if you are using FreeBSD on a laptop, you might want to subscribe
to freebsd-mobile instead of/in addition to freebsd-questions.  There is a
lot less traffic, and the discussion are usually relevant for most laptop
users.

Mark

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Adolfo Pisa wrote:

> ETHERLINK III PCMCIA card does not work.
> 
> I have purchased a ETHERLINK III (3c589D) pcmcia card for my Laptop, and
> I can't get it to work.
> 
> Steps Taken:
> 
>         On FreeBSD 2.2.2 I have rebuild the kernel to add PCCARD
> support.
>                 
>                 controler crd0
>                 device pcic0 at crd?
>                 device pcic1 at crd?
> 
>         I have not configured the card from Win95, but the default IRQ
> and IO seem to be OK.
> 
>         In /etc/rc.conf set pc_card_enable to "yes".
> 
>         I restarted.
> 
> What hapends:
> 
> 
>         At boot time I get the messages  "pccard XX driver added" for
> the the sio and network drivers. XX is the name of the driver 
> 
>         I also get later "/dev/card0 device not configured".
> 
>         None of the network drivers recognize the card, and give the
> default "XX not found at xxx"
>         ze0 should be the appropiate driver.
> 
> 
> What to do? :
> 
>         I dont know if I have made something wrong.
> 
>         What can I do to get it to work, or where to find documentation
> about these drivers.

Mark Andres               E-mail: coyote@ratbert.aisol.net
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