How to get FreeBSD-8.2 to recognise pcmcia for ethernet on a
libretto ?
Julian H. Stacey
jhs at berklix.com
Mon Jan 23 22:55:04 UTC 2012
Hi Warner (*) & FreeBSD mobile@
I'm trying to upgrade my Toshiba libretto from 4.11 to 8.2-RELEASE.
The 8.2 Generic kernel with 4.11 tree of binaries boots OK (with
device.hints, see URL above) & runs X11 OK;
But the ed0 pcmcia card that 4.11 uses for ethernet, is not seen.
All my configs & dmesg etc here:
http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/toshiba/libretto/
I guess I need some magic for pcmcia ?
(*) I had a note from Warner about 5.2.1 & YE-Data pcmcia cards (for floppy).
PPS I could do a make world, But:
That'd probably not get a working ethernet over pcmcia without
same extra config magic, & killing my ethernet I'm trying to avoid
as floppy drive & cdrom drive are both via a Single pcmcia slot.
Beyond that its PLIP or SLIP - none are easy.
I also failed to create an fdisk MBR with 2 boot partitions when
I installed 4.11, just 1 big partition, hence I'm trying to establish
if ethernet will work before running a make world.
If it will work I'll backup & remove disk to another machine, &
edit the MBR to allow more bootable FreeBSD slices.
Ideas & tips & URLs welcome please, Thanks
Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com
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