Re: 3c562 PCMCIA card

From: Gavin Metcalfe (gavin.metcalfe_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 05/05/04 

Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 08:23:54 +0000 (UTC)

I've installed 5.2 and the ethernet part works fine.

Gav

"james <at> hal-pc.org hal-pc.org >" <"james <at> wrote in message
news:4097bee6$0$128$be864849@news.hal-mli.net...
> Gavin Metcalfe wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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
> > (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.
> <snip>
>
> i've heard of people having problems getting the modem AND ethernet
> portions working at the same time, but i imagine that the ethernet side
> should work (in 5.x at least). I don't think they would have it in the
> code if it didn't work at all.
>
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