Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet

2008-09-18 Thread Brian L. Stuart
There's is some code laying around for Broadcom 570x cards: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/uriel/mirror/bc.tgz I'll take a look at it. I seem to recall some discussion of it and that it was in a pretty incomplete state. If I'm remembering correctly, I'm thinking my chances might

Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet

2008-09-18 Thread Brian L. Stuart
I was using a 3c589 until a few years ago, then I moved to a Netgear FA411 which is somwhat more mechanically robust - I broke the plug on the 3com card :-( It sounds like for a number of people it's working just fine, and no one's put forward any real magic to make it work, except for using

Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet

2008-09-17 Thread Martin Neubauer
I am using a 3c589 and remember having the same symptoms at first. Jmk then gave me the hint to try the other slot which amazingly did the trick. I then didn't investigate that further. Incidentally, I'm also having a 572 lying around I'm hoping to get running someday. As far as I remember, those

Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet

2008-09-17 Thread Brian L. Stuart
I am using a 3c589 and remember having the same symptoms at first. Jmk then gave me the hint to try the other slot which amazingly did the trick. I then didn't investigate that further. Incidentally, I'm also having a 572 lying around I'm hoping to get running someday. As far as I remember,

Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet

2008-09-17 Thread Andy Spencer
Of course, if someone has a hidden broadcom driver lying around, that would obviate the need for the pcmcia card...:-) There's is some code laying around for Broadcom 570x cards: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/uriel/mirror/bc.tgz I've been trying to get that working on a computer

Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet

2008-09-17 Thread Steve Simon
I was using a 3c589 until a few years ago, then I moved to a Netgear FA411 which is somwhat more mechanically robust - I broke the plug on the 3com card :-( -Steve