hello, > repairs are expensive for these things (g3/333 bronze) so i was hoping to > use a pcmcia ethernet card. i installed the pcmcia_cs package and made > modules from the 2.4.3 kernel for pcmcia ethernet but my machine hangs > when i plug in a card (3com megahertz 3cce574bt but i could easily get a > different card) there is some pcmcia config file in /etc and in /etc/pcmcia that requires a bit of tweaking. Actually I did not succesfully try PCMCIA on a 2.4.x yet, but on 2.2.x it works pretty well.
parameters that require tweaking: - I/O range, is defined in /etc/pcmcia/config (or config.opts ?) see the doku that came with the pcmcia_cs package, there they say that for PowerPC machines you need to redefine the I/O range to something like 0x80000000-0x80ffffff or so - chipset type: the kernel hangs rather badly if it tries to initialize a PCMCIA controller using the wrong chipset. I'm afraid I can't give you the correct file locations and parameters now, since my Powerbook is rather far; but as a hint it should do. If you require the detail stuff, write me again. PS: as a network card, I'm using an Abocom FE1000, being basically a 10/100Mbps NE2000 clone. It works, but not too perfectly: only when power cable is attached, and only in the upper PCMCIA slot, and it eventually requires multiple /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart to get it up and working. (As seen on my Powerbook 2400c) bye Philipp Kaeser / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
