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- The 3Com 3C589D card is now supported.

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Nate Williams 1997-05-21 18:49:34 +00:00
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Hardware Documentation Guide: $Id: hardware.hlp,v 1.25 1997/03/12 18:58:25 joerg Exp $
Hardware Documentation Guide: $Id: hardware.hlp,v 1.26 1997/03/13 01:03:16 joerg Exp $
Contents last changed: Jan 14th, 1997
@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ vx0 dyn dyn n/a dyn 3Com 3c59x / 3c9xx
ze0 300 5 n/a d8000 IBM/National Semiconductor
PCMCIA Ethernet Controller
zp0 300 10 n/a d8000 3Com 3c589 Etherlink III
PCMCIA Ethernet Controller (NOT 3c589D!)
PCMCIA Ethernet Controller
--- End of table ---
@ -300,16 +300,11 @@ Q: FreeBSD claims to support the 3Com PCMCIA card, but my card isn't
A: There are a couple of possible problems. First of all, FreeBSD does
not support multi-function cards, so if you have a combo
ethernet/modem card, it won't work. Secondly, 3Com's most recent
version of the 3C589, the 'D' revision is not supported by the
GENERIC kernel. 3Com changed the card in a manner that we can no
longer support it in the default driver (* See below).
Assuming you have an older 3C589 card, then this card is
supported and will work in FreeBSD. The driver was written just like
all of the other drivers in FreeBSD, and depend on the card's own
configuration data stored in NVRAM to work. You must correctly
configure FreeBSD's driver to match the IRQ, port, and IOMEM stored
in NVRAM.
ethernet/modem card (such as the 3C562), it won't work. The
default driver for the 3C589 card was written just like all of the
other drivers in FreeBSD, and depend on the card's own configuration
data stored in NVRAM to work. You must correctly configure FreeBSD's
driver to match the IRQ, port, and IOMEM stored in NVRAM.
Unfortunately, the only program capable of reading them is the
3COM supplied DOS program. This program must be run on a absolutely
clean system (no other drivers must be running), and the program will
@ -320,12 +315,6 @@ A: There are a couple of possible problems. First of all, FreeBSD does
un-settable, and can only be read. Once you have these values, set
them in UserConfig and your card will be recognized.
* The D revision is supported in new PCMCIA generic code written for
FreeBSD, but there is little/no documentation written on how to set
it up yet. Hopefully in the next release of FreeBSD the new code
will be better supported, which will add support for almost all
PCMCIA cards.
Q: FreeBSD finds my PCMCIA network card, but no packets appear to
be sent even though it claims to be working.