Fwd: Re: OZ6832 CardBus bridge and 3Com 3c589D PCMCIA card

err err at polito.eu.org
Mon Oct 31 07:15:02 PST 2005


Hi

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:08:31 +0100, guru at Sisis.de wrote:

Q: 
Q: Hello,
Q: 
Q: In the old days of 1998 I've hacked together a patch to make
Q: the OZ6832 CardBus bridge working, it was based on FreeBSD 2.2.6
Q: and the helping hand of Nate Williams and others...
Q: 
Q: This notebook is still alive and sitting next to me (I'm just doing
Q: a last and final DUMP at the moment); my idea is to add more
Q: RAM and disk to it and install FreeBSD 5.4-REL on it as I did
Q: with my Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO notebook and give it away to
Q: my love.
Q: 
Q: Is this old OZ6832 CardBus stuff still alive in FreeBSD 5.4 or will
Q: it work today without building a cardbus-kernel?

I think the support of this cardbus is quite changed...
In sys/dev/pccbb/pccbb_pci.c your pcmcia controller seems to be
supported by "modern" freebsds.

The pcmcia card is supported as usual. 

Emmanuel

Q: 
Q: Thx
Q: 
Q: 	matthias
Q: 
Q: 
Q: ----- Forwarded message from Matthias Apitz <guru at sisis.de> -----
Q: 
Q: Subject: Re: OZ6832 CardBus bridge and 3Com 3c589D PCMCIA card
Q: To: nate at .......... (Nate Williams)
Q: Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 08:54:02 +0200 (MDT)
Q: From: guru at sisis.de (Matthias Apitz)
Q: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23]
Q: 
Q: 
Q: attached below is a patch together with the MD5 value it should
Q: have after uudecoding and unzipping; please have a look if it doesn't
Q: break other chips (should not, but who knows :-));
Q: 
Q: 	...
Q: 
Q: I'm running 2.2.6-RELEASE and also changed some lines in
Q: the pcic_resume code; but the 3c589D isn't reloaded; will
Q: look deeper into that; at the moment I have to load all
Q: the nice ports and explore my new toy :-))
Q: 
Q: thanks for your assistance all the time;
Q:     
Q: 	matthias
Q: 
Q: 
Q: MD5 (OZ6832.diff) = 47b8137fde4450f58f11deeaf2cdacef
Q: 
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Q: MV<N*#J\D9X]LB at 4"0W(D$.#BT)&LWV]_W=,S.$A0UG/\:I>6+ *8;O1]S>SN
Q: 	...
Q:  
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-- 
emmanuel


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