Subject: Re: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet
To: None <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
From: Feico Dillema <dillema@acm.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/29/2000 19:35:16
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:22:52PM +0200, PER4MANCE, J. Dolecek wrote:
> Feico Dillema wrote:
> > As cardbus support seems to work perfectly now on my thinkpad, I tried
> > the Xircom CBE-10/100BTX card I have lying around here with the tlp
> > driver. But the driver tells me this card is not supported yet.
> 
> Maybe it's just a matter of adding a device id in table and
> changing the dev/cardbus/if_tlp_cardbus.c accordingly. Does
> your device id's match those already in the tables ?

It gets recognized but it cannot read its ROM properly to get to the
hardware address and such. This is what I got (with some extra
debugging enabled) from the driver:

tlp0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0: DECchip 21143 Ethernet, pass 3.0
tlp0: SROM size is 2^6*16 bits (128 bytes)
SROM CONTENTS:
        0x5d 0x11 0x02 0x00 0x87 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0xa6 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
        0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x21 0xe0 
tlp0: sorry, unable to handle your board

Feico.