On Thu Feb 2 21:44:40 EST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are there any known issues with the 3C589 driver? I've been trying > to get a 589D PCMCIA card working on my laptop, with limited > success. The card probes and net/ether0 appears, but I don't see any > data coming in. The stats counters do show data being received, so > I'm a bit puzzled. > > Now this could be a PCI interrupt routing issue -- a couple of odd > messages come up during the boot about IRQ5 and an unreachable south > bridge. If the 589 driver is known to be working I'll boot the > laptop again and transcribe the relevant messages. > ...
Yes, that's probably interrupts not being set up correctly. Every laptop is a crapshoot. One way is to boot another O/S (Windows has worked for me in the past) and note down the IRQs used by the PCMCIA socket and that assigned to the 589D, then use those in plan9.ini. I used to have this in an older laptop: ether0=type=3C589 media=10BaseT irq=3 pcmcia0=type=xxx irq=9 Your plan9.ini and the messages you get might shed some light. --jim
