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From: itannman@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu (Ann Mansker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3C589 setup
Date: 1 Sep 1995 23:56:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Thomas Pusateri (pusateri@jcmax.com) wrote:
: I've played this game before. It doesn't matter what you set by the
: 3C589CFG program. Whatever is set in the kernel config file is what
: will be set in the card if one is found. Your problem is that it
: can't find the card.

Rats -- I thought "zp: pcmcia slot 0:" meant that it *was* finding the
card.  So that means it's only acknowledging that something is physically
there, not seeing it as a network adapter?

: This happened to me with a pentium notebook and the Cirrus Logic PD672x
: PCMCIA chipset. I had to add some timing parameters in the probe routine
: to make it read the Card string indentifier correctly. Otherwise it was
: gibberish.

: What PCMCIA chipset do you have?

According to tech support, it's a Cirris Logic 6720 -- gee that looks 
suspiciously familiar.  He said there was no further designation, but 
I'll bet whatever you did would work....

: Tom