Problems installing 1.5.2 on a Compaq 12LX125

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I have installed NetBSD 1.5.2 on a Compaq 12LX125 Laptop. The driver
for the ether net pcmcia card I have seems to recognize the card, but
then issues a 'where did the card go' failure message. I've rebuilt the
kernel from the CD sources, with the same effect.

The card inquestion is a Linksys PCMCIA card with does both 10 and
100 base T.

In the FreeBSD environment I had to change a config line in some file
but I don't see a similar sort of config for pcmcia devices under NetBSD.

I'm currently downloading the CVS source set to see if there's some
difference.

But if someone has recent experiences and successfull one's I'd like to
hear about that.

Thank You
John Clark

I have the same problem.

Solution #1

posted on May 28, 2006

Grant - usenet poster

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Am Freitag den, 11. Januar 2002, um 09:36, schrieb Manuel Bouyer:

I don't know if you caught my follow up post which indicated that I was
able to get an older Linksys card working. The problem card is a
"EtherFast 10/100 PC Card" (Model: PCMPC100).

I will have to review my steps on FreeBSD to see if I can find the info.
I installed
it, got it working, and then set up Mandrake Linux, as that was
recommended
for an 'easy install' to get X working. I did that, and have a config
file,
so now I'm going back to NetBSD...

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posted on May 28, 2006

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What line did you need to change ? This can give us indications on what to
change in NetBSD.

--
Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.B
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posted on May 28, 2006

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Am Freitag den, 11. Januar 2002, um 06:07, schrieb :

(problem in dock'ed pcmcia card...)

Well, further occluding, and a not so satisfactory fix...

I took the card out and the silkscreen indicated that the card's real
name
is 'EtherFast 10/100 PC Card" (model number PCMPC100.

I had an older 10 base T card which has on it's silkscreen, 'Ethernet
Combo Card',
(combo here means has a coax spigot and a RJ45 connector).

That one actually works. So my current thought is that while the driver
recognises
the existence of the card, from the pcmcia probe, there is some
difference in
registers or values in registers which later cause the attach to fail.
I'll look into
that later.

Thanks
John Clark

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