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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PCMCIA config and command sources Date: 24 Sep 1996 23:13:33 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 71 Message-ID: <529med$ha2@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <523vqq$hnd@news.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lloyd M Caldwell (lmc@no.such.domain) wrote: : Just attempted to install the 2.1.5-RELEASE from Walnut Creek : on a laptop (ibm laptop 760el, pentium, pci,isa, 24meg memory, 1gig : disk) with a pcmcia 3com 3c589 ethernet. Since this machine has : no cd-rom I attempted an NFS install. At the network interface : configuration screen after filling in the host name, domain, : interface address I get a "I'm dead: signal 11". I tried : an IBM Ethernet pcmcia adapter, same problem. : Finally copying the files to a dos partition I got : 2.1.5 installed. Re-built my kernel setting up the : ps/2 mouse, sound blaster, zp0 (3c589) but can't get the : 3c589 to work. [.......] Well, I thought that the last version of the PCMCIA code that worked with 2.1* was pccard-test-960414.tar.gz. I'm surprised that they integrated it w/ 2.1.5 as they said just after this release that they were only building for FreeBSD 2.2-9606??-SNAP ! At that point, I had a working nep driver using the above pccard software and 2.2-960323-SNAP. It had a timing bug that irritated me quite a bit - but not enough to pull down a new FreeBSD distribution over a 28k modem on the "hope" that my problem would go away. I got access to an ISDN link the other day and have now installed 960801-SNAP. I havn't integrated anything - I havn't changed a single line of code except for changing "nep" to "ep" - it all works out of the box & my problem seems to be gone **BEAM**. Well done guys ! I'd suggest trying this SNAP shot. The only "GOTCHA" is that pccard support isn't compiled into the GENERIC kernel :( My config entry (for a 3c589c in /etc/pccard.conf) is: card "3Com Corporation" "3C589" config 0x1 "ep0" 11 insert ifconfig ep0 up insert echo Time to run yer script ! | wall remove ifconfig ep0 down remove route flush remove ifconfig ep0 delete I don't know anything about the pccard.ethernet (or whatever) file as I connect to many networks and am reduced to running a script on connection, something like: cd /etc rm -f named.boot resolv.conf ln -s anorak/resolv.conf.home resolv.conf ln -s anorak/namedb/home/named.boot named.boot cd /usr/local/samba/lib rm -f hosts ln -s hosts-home hosts pkill named >/dev/null 2>&1 ifconfig ep0 down route flush ifconfig ep0 -link0 link1 ifconfig ep0 inet 10.0.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 route delete 10.0.1.1 >/dev/null 2>&1 route delete default >/dev/null 2>&1 route add default 10.0.1.1 named -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....