Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:39:48 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> To: Ross A Lippert <ripper@plato.nmia.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ok, how about a 3Com Message-ID: <38FCABF4.B859313D@vangelderen.org> References: <m12hbnm-0011c0C@plato.nmia.com>
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Ross A Lippert wrote: > > (with regards to the previous saga of getting freeBSD on my thinkpad) What type of Thinkpad do you have? > OK, I was able to swap cards and get a 3com 3c589B card. I figure this > card is significantly older than the etherjet cardbus and so it should be > supported (and I've never had trouble with 3com before). Is there a good > tutorial on pccards under freeBSD that someone on this list recommends? I've got a 3Com 589D and I've been able to do network installs over it on both a Thinkpad 600 and 560Z. It uses the ep0 driver. FreeBSD supports the Linksys Fast 100-BaseT (ed0 driver) but I was unable to do a network install over those. I resorted to installing over a 3Com 589D and after install changed over to the LinkSys. Works fine. Another card that works *very* well on FreeBSD 4 is the Lucent WaveLAN Silver card, thanks to Bill Paul. I couldn't do a network install over this card either because the sysinstall doesn't allow you to set the various WaveLAN specific options such as SSID and port-type which are neccessary to talk to my access point but after install it works just dandy. Getting things to work on the ThinkPad 600 was rather easy, the defaults just worked I think. You may have to experiment with the various PCCARD sysinstall options a bit but that's all. I'd give more info but the 600 is being serviced at this moment. The 560Z is another story, I don't have the details at hand but getting it to work with sysinstall's GENERIC kernel involved: - Making sure there's only one card inserted. - Disabling 'Quick Boot' in the BIOS (so that the BIOS initializes everything). - Changing the PCCARD irq in the visual kernel config. I don't recall the values but if it is set to 11 you have to change it to 10 or the other way around. - Trying different settings for PCCARD memory and IRQ in sysinstall. The defaults don't work. Try the 3rd and 2nd options for the memory window and the 2nd or 3rd for IRQ. I wrote up the details on a webpage (including kernel config) but that's offline now unfortunately. I'll send mail when it's online again but it can take a while (weeks). Dmesg available on request. Bottom line: installing from CDROM is probably easier unless you don't have a CDROM device :-) Cheers, Jeroen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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