Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet
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 be better with the PCMCIA route first. BLS
Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet
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 the other slot on some machines. So that brings up the question, why is it working on some machines, and some slots, and not others. To me that seems to point to the PCMCIA code, but then aux/pcmcia picks it up. I expect I'll try to move forward by adding some debug output to try and trace what's happening and what's not. But if anyone has any great PCMCIA wisdom, feel free to speak up :-) Along those lines, if a CardBus controller is not recognized by devpccard, should I expect dev82365 to handle it correctly? And I too have had trouble with the connectors on the 3com cards. This one will end up in a rack, so I figure it's a good place for a pigtail that can't take too much stress. Thanks, BLS
Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet
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 are pretty close to the 574/575 bunch driver-wise. Just not supported on Plan 9. While somewhat unspecific, I hope that helps somewhat, Martin * Brian L. Stuart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is anyone currently successfully using a pcmcia ethernet card? The last time I tried to do this, I came to the conclusion that I would need to sacrifice a chicken to get it to work, and I ended up moving on to something else. But I'm back to trying this. I've tried with several versions of the 3c589 and an old linksys. On all these, aux/pcmcia reports the right thing, but trying to bind #l reports no free devices. Is there some magic incantation to make it work. It doesn't seem to matter whether I put an entry in plan9.ini. Ultimately, I want to get a 3c575 working, but neither of the ones I have lying around are recognized by aux/pcmcia, so I figured it'd be better to start with something a little more boring. Of course, if someone has a hidden broadcom driver lying around, that would obviate the need for the pcmcia card...:-) Thanks, BLS
Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet
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 are pretty close to the 574/575 bunch driver-wise. Just not supported on Plan 9. While somewhat unspecific, I hope that helps somewhat, Interesting. This particular machine only has 1 slot, but this does suggest where to start looking in the code. If I do get this sorted out, then I'll see if I can take a crack at the 575 and similar cards. Thanks, BLS
Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet
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 of mine that has a BCM5751 card but so far I don't have it working. pgpXDZVjqlv97.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet
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
