[RESOLVED] Belkin F5D5020 PCMCIA Card/Notebook Network Card

From: Nick H. - Network Operations (nickh_at_supportteam.net)
Date: 07/28/03

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    To: "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
    Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 04:52:19 -0500
    
    

    I auctually got it working under FreeBSD 4.8. Eventually (read: after next
    weekend) I plan on attempting to get it working under 5.X. Unfortunately I
    need the laptop for an event that is happening this week. Anyways, it's
    working and here's the relevant file settings used:

    ## FOR FREEBSD 4.X ##
    /etc/rc.conf:

    pccard_enable="YES"
    pccard_mem="DEFAULT"
    pccardd_flags=" -i 10"

    the -i 10 sets the IRQ on the device to 10 (dont ask how I found it... Ive
    already closed Opera ;D)

    and it's using the following in the /etc/defaults/pccard.conf:

    # Belkin F5D5020
    card "Belkin" "F5D5020-PCMCIA-Network-Card"
            config auto "ed" ? 0x10
            insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
            remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop

    The thing is up and running fine. dmesg output:

    pcic0: Polling mode
    pccard0: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic0
    pccard1: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic0
    ...
    pccard: card inserted, slot 0
    ...
    Setup PC-CARD:
     memory
     beep
     pccardd
    ...
    Jul 28 03:55:30 pccardd[47]: Card "Belkin"("F5D5020-PCMCIA-Network-Card")
    [V1]
    [0] matched "Belkin" ("F5D5020-PCMCIA-Network-Card") [(null)] [(null)]
    ...
    Jul 28 03:55:35 pccardd[47]: ed1: Belkin (F5D5020-PCMCIA-Network-Card)
    inserted.
    ...
    Jul 28 03:56:45 pccardd[47]: pccardd started

    The device is running just fine. Hopefully, this is of some help to you, as
    if I understand you correctly, you're having issues with the IRQ setting.
    Try the pccardd_flags=" -i ##" where ## is the IRQ you want it to use.
    Anyways, all is working well now.

    Regards,
    Nick H.
    nickh@supportteam.net

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
    To: "Nick H. - Network Operations" <nickh@supportteam.net>
    Cc: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>; "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
    Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:23 AM
    Subject: Re: Belkin F5D5020 PCMCIA Card/Notebook Network Card

    : At 2:38 AM -0500 2003/07/28, Nick H. - Network Operations wrote:
    :
    : > Does support for the Belkin F5D5020 PCMCIA Card/Notebook Network Card
    exist
    : > in FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE? According to Belkin, it does, but I have been
    : > unable to find any support for this card. Any suggestions on the right
    : > place to look are more than welcome.
    :
    : Back in October of last year, I cooked up a pccard.conf entry for
    : it that seemed to mostly work:
    :
    : # Belkin F5D5020 NE2000-compatible card (FCC ID: LXLC1LANTB)
    : card "Belkin" "F5D5020-PCMCIA-Network-Card"
    : config auto "ed" ?
    : logstr "Belkin F5D5020 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet 16-bit PCMCIA
    : card (NE2000-compatible)"
    : insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
    : remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
    :
    :
    : I submitted this to Warner Losh, but IIRC, I got an indication
    : back that this wasn't right. However, I don't recall that I ever got
    : any correct pccard.conf setting for this device, and while I could
    : get FreeBSD to see the card and use this entry to mostly recognize
    : it, I could not actually get any positive network results this way.
    :
    : Any additional information you can find would be appreciated.
    : Right now, I'm using a Linksys (EtherFast 10/100 Integrated PC Card
    : (PCM100) on the machine where I was trying to use the Belkin, but it
    : sticks out from the machine and blocks the second PC Card slot, so
    : I'd prefer to use the Belkin (which is flush with the edge and comes
    : with a dongle), if possible.
    :
    : If I could get them both working, or get one of them working with
    : one of my various 802.11b WiFi cards, then I would have two NICs and
    : could do some much more interesting things with this machine.
    : Unfortunately, everything seems to want IRQ3, so even if I could get
    : the individual cards working by themselves, I don't know if I could
    : ever get them working together.
    :
    :
    : I did find an interesting entry at
    : <http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=8315>,
    : at the bottom (dated April 2002) that shows the pccard.conf entry of:
    :
    : # Belkin F5D5020
    : card "Belkin" "F5D5020-PCMCIA-Network-Card"
    : config auto "ed" ? 0x10
    : insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
    : remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
    :
    : Which the author claims (claimed) works (worked) for him.
    :
    :
    : You can see my posts from October of last year at
    :
    <http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=753513+0+archive/2002/freebsd-
    questions/20021013.freebsd-questions>,
    :
    <http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2755078+0+archive/2002/freebsd
    -questions/20021013.freebsd-questions>,
    : and
    :
    <http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=750581+0+archive/2002/freebsd-
    questions/20021013.freebsd-questions>.
    : And then there's the post at
    :
    <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-April/001987.html
    >
    : from April, which also mentions this card.
    :
    : But still, no answers to this question. Unfortunately, just
    : Googling for "Belkin F5D5020 FreeBSD" doesn't do much good, as it
    : turns up many resellers of this card which claims that it works with
    : FreeBSD, or articles that happen to mention both FreeBSD and this
    : card on the same page (such as
    : <http://www.23degrees.net/mt/archives/000135.html>), but which don't
    : actually provide any solutions.
    :
    : --
    : Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
    :
    : "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
    : safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
    : -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
    :
    : GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--)
    N+
    : !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++)
    R+(+++)
    : tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)*
    z(+++)

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