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From: hugh@well.sf.ca.us (Hugh Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Trying to get NEC Versa/P75 & PCMCIA (Ethernet) working...
Date: 1 Feb 1996 05:55:54 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Message-ID: <4epkla$44j@nkosi.well.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: well.com
Summary: Looking for someone who knows why it's broken
Keywords: PCMCIA, Ethernet, FreeBSD


  I am having problems with getting the PCMCIA Ether card I have
working under FreeBSD on my hardware.  I once ran across someone else
successfully using my hardware/software configuration and before
crawling down into the kernel to debug the problem, I thought I would
check to see if anyone else has dealt with this problem.

  I have a NEC Versa P/75 notebook, running 2.1.0-RELEASE software and
a 3Com 3C589C PCMCIA Ether card.  The current drivers do not seem to
see the card at boot, they might not even be seeing the PCMCIA driver
chips (Intel chipset I think), it's hard to tell.

  If anyone has gotten this combination working, or has useful debugging
info/advice please post here and/or email it too me.

  As long as I am posting about Laptops and PCMCIA, last summer I herd
that there was a driver for one of the PCMCIA modem cards, can anyone
tell me anything about this?

  Hey, three cheers for the FreeBSD team!  Thanks folks!

		||ugh Daniel
		General Systems Consultant
		hugh@toad.com