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From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: [FreeBSD PCMCIA] PC-card support new alpha-release
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Date: 30 Mar 1996 17:21:50 GMT
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PC-card (PCMCIA) package for freebsd --- new alpha release
version 960328
Tatsumi Hosokawa
BSD-nomads team, Japan
FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE lacks "real" PC-card (PCMCIA) support. It
supports only two Ethernet cards (IBM and 3Com) and it doesn't support
so-called "hotplug" feature. Our PC-card (PCMCIA) package supports
many cards includes Ethernet, FAX/Modem, ISDN, SCSI, Flash ATA, ATA
HDD, etc.
The latest release is version 960328. You can get it at,
ftp://bash.cc.keio.ac.jp/pub/os/FreeBSD/alpha-test/pccard/pccard-test-960328.tar.gz
This is the README file of this package.......
Enjoy!
--
HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp
WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html
Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
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PCMCIA card package for FreeBSD 2.2-960323-SNAP
Tatsumi Hosokawa <hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp>, Yokohama Japan
This package contains the device drivers, the manager daemon, and the
maintainance utilities for PCMCIA cards under FreeBSD
2.2.0-960323-SNAP.
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Attention
This package is alpha-test package. If you use this package, please
report to <hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> if possible, whether it works or
not, what environment you're using, what problem has happened, how to
avoid this probem, etc. Patches are more welcome. Please put
"[pccard-test]" on the head of the "Subject:" to pick it up easily.
If you can drive new cards, please send me the patches and
pccard.conf. Thanks!
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I created a web page for this package. The URL is,
http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/freebsd-pcmcia/
If you want to know the "current" status of this packge, please check
it!
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Current Status
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Type Card Status Driver
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Ethernet
3Com Etherlink III 3C589 OK nep
3Com Etherlink III 3C589B OK nep
3Com Etherlink III 3C589C OK nep
Accton EN2212 OK ed
Contec C-NET(PC)C OK fe
Farallon EtherMac OK nep
Fujitsu FMV-J181 OK fe
Fujitsu FMV-J182 OK fe
Fujitsu FMV-J182A OK fe
Hitachi HT-4840-11 OK fe
IBM Creditcard Ethernet I OK ed
IBM Creditcard Ethernet II OK ed
Megahertz Ethernet Adapter OK sn
Megahertz X-Jack Ethernet OK sn
Melco LPC-T OK ed
NextCom J Link NC5310 OK fe
FAX/Modem
AIWA PV-JF288 OK sio
APEX DATA Mobile Plus V.34 OK sio
Fujitsu FMV-JMD712 OK sio
GATEWAY2000 MODEM OK sio
Hayes OPTIMA 288 V.34 NG sio *1
IBM Push/Pop Modem OK sio
Megahertz XJ1144 OK sio
Megahertz XJ2144 OK sio
Megahertz XJ2144J OK sio
Megahertz XJ2288 OK sio
Megahertz XJ3288J OK sio
NewMedia FAX/Modem 14.4K OK sio
Novalink NovaModem 144 OK sio
OMRON ME2814 Fax/Modem OK sio
OMRON MD24XCA Fax/Modem OK sio
Panasonic TO-CAF288 OK sio
PREMAX FM288 OK sio
TDK DF1414 OK sio
TDK DF1414EX OK sio
TDK DF2814B/M OK sio
US Robotics Sportster PCMCIA V.34 OK sio
US Robotics COURIER PCMCIA V.34 OK sio
Xircom CreditCard Ethernet+Modem (Modem only) OK sio *2
ISDN
BUG Linkboy D64K OK sio
Digital Cellular
NTT DoCoMo DATA/FAX Adapter OK sio
IRDA
IBM PCMCIA Serial IR Adapter Card NG sio
SCSI
Adaptec SlimSCSI APA-1460 OK aic
NewMedia BusToaster OK aic
RATOC REX-5535AC OK spc
RATOC REX-5535AMC OK spc
RATOC REX-5535X OK spc
Flash ATA
Epson Flash Packer 5MB OK wdc
Epson Flash Packer 20MB OK wdc
Epson Flash Packer 40MB OK wdc
Midori Elec. Fast Flash OK wdc
SunDisk SPD5-5 OK wdc
SunDisk SPD5-20 OK wdc
SunDisk SPD-40 OK wdc
ATA HDD
Maxtor MobileMax MXL131 OK wdc
Mitsubishi M6887-3 170MB OK wdc
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The cards we're going to work on
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Type Card Status Driver
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Ethernet
RATOC REX-5585 NG fe?
FAX/Modem, ISDN, Digital Cellular, IrDA
All serial PCMCIA cards for PC/AT compatibles NG sio
Wireless LAN
Proxim RangeLAN2 NG N/A
FM-radio card
Panasonic FM-text PCMCIA card NG sio
SCSI
IBM PCMCIA SCSI NG N/A
I/O Data PCMCIA SCSI NG N/A
Ratoc REX-5565 NG N/A
Multi Function Card
3Com Etherlink III w/FAX Modem 3C562 NG ep,sio
Megahertz X-Jack Ethernet w/FAX Modem NG sn,sio
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*1 I've not succeeded making this card working. Sorry.
*2 We don't want to support any Xircom PCMCIA cards because of their
harsh policy against free software.
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To install:
1. Extract this package at /usr/src
# cd /usr/src
# tar xvfz "package directory"/pccard-test-960328.tar.gz
2. Backup original /sys file if needed
# cd /usr/src
# mkdir sys.ORG
# cd sys.ORG
# (chdir ../sys ; tar cf - .) | tar xvf -
3. Apply kernel-patch to kernel source tree
# cd /usr/src
# patch -p0 < pccard-test-960328/2.2-960323-SNAP/sys.patch
4. Modify kernel config file for your environment
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LEINLEIN is sample configuration file I'm
using on Digital Hinote Ultra CS433
* Don't remove "controller crd0" and "device pcic0" !
# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
# cp LEINLEIN "your config file name"
# vi "your config file name"
For some particular machines such as Digital Hinote, ThinkPad
230Cs, etc. we prepared specific "options". If your machine is
one of them, please uncomment the corresponding line.
5. Create a symlink for compiling pccard package
# ln -s /sys/pccard /usr/include
6. Compile your kernel
# config "your config file name"
# cd ../../compile/"your config file name"
# make depend
# make
# make install
7. Compile the manager daemon and the utility and install them
# cd /usr/src/pccard-test-960328
# cd usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd
# make
# make install BINDIR=/usr/sbin
# cd ../pccardc
# make
# make install BINDIR=/usr/sbin
8. Create device files for your pccard slots and APM BIOS
# cd /dev
# sh MAKEDEV card0
# sh MAKEDEV card1
# sh MAKEDEV apm
9. Install PC-card configuration file and modify it for your
environment
pccard-test-960328/2.2-960323-SNAP/etc/pccard.conf.sample is
sample config file currently I'm using on my laptops.
# cp /usr/src/pccard-test-960328/2.2-960323-SNAP/etc/pccard.conf.sample /etc/pccard.conf
10. Modify /etc/sysconfig
# cd /etc
# mv sysconfig sysconfig.orig
# cp /usr/src/pccard-test-960328/2.2-960323-SNAP/etc/sysconfig /etc
11. Install /etc/rc.pccard, /etc/pccard_ether and /etc/pccard_ether_remove
# cp /usr/src/pccard-test-960328/2.1.0-RELEASE/etc/rc.pccard /etc
# cp /usr/src/pccard-test-960328/2.1.0-RELEASE/etc/pccard_ether /etc
# cp /usr/src/pccard-test-960328/2.1.0-RELEASE/etc/pccard_ether_remove /etc
12. Edit /etc/sysconfig
# vi /etc/sysconfig
Troubleshooting:
* This kernel hangs up when it probes APM BIOS.
-> Some implementations of protected mode APM BIOS has serious bugs.
At first, confirm that your laptop has the latest BIOS. These
days, BIOS'es of many laptops has been updated to fix these bugs
of protected mode APM BIOS because Windows 95 uses it. If the
BIOS is not latest one, update it soon. Even if the BIOS is the
latest one, you can "cope with" these problems by modifying the
kernel source. If you're a hacker, try to solve your problem by
adding a new entry in /usr/src/sys/i386/include/laptops.h
corresponding to your machine, and try to solve this problem. If
your problem is solved, please send us a report about your
solution (and of course your environment). If you're not hacker,
boot the kernel with "kernel -c" and type simply "disable apm0" :-).
* My machine sleeps twice after the invocation of zzz command. Why?
-> This problem is caused by the ambiguousness of APM BIOS
specification. I think that the APM BIOS specification has
ambiguous definitions about the "state" of devices and the timing
of the generation of event messages. So it can be implemented in
some diffent ways. Try to use APM_SUSPEND_POSTPONE or
APM_SUSPEND_DELAY options to avoid this problem. See
/usr/src/sys/i386/include/laptops.h.
* APM driver says that the version of APM is 53.14. What is APM
53.14???
-> If APM driver reports this value, get-version function (APM 1.1
or above) is broken. Try to use FORCE_APM10 option. See
/usr/src/sys/i386/include/laptops.h. I think that this problem
can be avoided automatically. So you can't see this problem in
the future releases. Currently there are only APM 1.0 and APM
1.1 machines. Microsoft released the new APM 1.2 specification,
but I've not seen any APM 1.2 machines.
* Failed to probe PCMCIA FAX/Modem cards (or other serial cards) while
the entries of /etc/pccard.conf seems to be correct.
-> Case 1: Add a new entry in /usr/src/sys/i386/include/laptops.h
corresponding to your machine and add SIO_IRQ_BUG or SIO_IRQ_BUG2
in it (see DHULTRA and TP230 entry in laptops.h)
Case 2: Specify explicitly the larger value of "reset" in the
entry of /etc/pccard.conf (default is 100)
card "OMRON Corp." "MD24XCA"
config 0x23 "sio2" 16
reset 10000
Case 3: Specify the IRQ 16 at the corresponding entry in
/etc/pccard.conf. It forces serial driver to be in program I/O
mode. It produces less performance and higher overhead (polling
routine is called 200 times per second when you're using
FAX/Modem) in kernel mode. I don't recommend this mode.
card "Panasonic" "CF-JVR101"
config 0x22 "sio3" 16 # IRQ 16 means PIO mode
* Failed to use NE-2000 compatible Ethernet cards while the entries of
/etc/pccard.conf seems to be correct
-> Some NE-2000 compatible Ethernet card has weired CIS tupples
about the description of shared memory address (Accton EN-2212,
etc.). Adding flags 0x10 at the corresponding entry of
/etc/pccard.conf. It diables the use of shared memory and force
the driver to work in program I/O mode.
card "ACCTON" "EN2212"
config 0x1 "ed0" 11 0x10 # flags 0x10 means PIO mode
ether 0xff0
Please note that it can make the performance very poor on
particular environment. Sometimes it works slower than the ISDN
cards (but, for example Digital Hinote Ultra CS433 with Melco
LPC-T in this mode can receive data at 4Mbps via TCP).
TODO (Please help us!):
1. Write documents such as "/etc/pccard.conf writer's guide" and "Plug'n
Play hotplug device drivers writer's guide"
2. Support Databook TCIC card controller.
3. Implement all PC-card functionalities (multiple memory window, etc.).
4. Make all drivers more stable.
5. This package is unstable, especially on Digital Hinote Ultra (We
can't use Flash ATA on this machine, APM is unstable, etc.).
Thanks to....:
Andrew McRae <amcrae@cisco.com> (for the original pccard package)
Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
Atsuo Ohki <ohki@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Members of BSD-nomads Mailing List
Especially,
Naoki Hamada <nao@tom-yam.or.jp> (for ep driver)
Hidetoshi Kimura <h-kimura@tokyo.se.fujitsu.co.jp> (for aic driver)
T. Matsutsuka <matsu@cs.titech.ac.jp> (for spc driver)
Hidetoshi Kimura <h-kimura@tokyo.se.fujitsu.co.jp> (for fe driver)
DOTEGUCHI Masahiro <xdote@rp.open.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> (for pccard daemon)
Akihiro Hirano <hirano@dsp.cl.nec.co.jp>
Kunikazu Yoda <yoda@ais.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Toshihisa Eto <eto@ai.cs.fujitsu.co.jp>
Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@iabs.hitachi.co.jp>
And many alpha-testers....
Tatsumi Hosokawa