Hi,

I'm trying to network install NetBSD 1.5 on to my laptop using a PCMCIA ethernet NIC.
The label on the card itself says,

  PCMCIA
  Home and Away
  Fax/Modem & Ethernet Credit Card Adapter
  IBM

However, inserting the card after booting from the install floppy says:

  IBM, w95 Home and Away Credit Card , Version 001, Card Assy Part Number - 10H4706 (manufacturer 0x00a4, product 0x002e) function 0 not configured
  com3 at pcmcia1 function 1 port 0x400-0x407: serial device
  com3: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo

dmesg also shows the same if I boot with the card in the slot.
The first lines of the dmesg say:

  NetBSD 1.5 (INSTALL) #1: Sun Nov 19 21:59:05 MET 2000
      fvdl@sushi:/work/trees/netbsd-1-5/sys/arch/i386/compile/INSTALL
  cpu0: Intel Pentium (P54C) (586-class)

So my question is: is the network portion of this card supported by
NetBSD at this time?  That is, is this a problem that can be solved by
some simple kernel addition and reinstall?  Of course I'd then have to
figure out how to do an install to the laptop without a network
card...

A grep in /usr/src/sys/dev/pcmcia/ gives me:

  $ grep 'IBM.HOME' *
  pcmciadevs:product IBM HOME_AND_AWAY    0x002e IBM Home and Away Modem
  pcmciadevs.h:#define    PCMCIA_CIS_IBM_HOME_AND_AWAY    { NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL }
  pcmciadevs.h:#define    PCMCIA_PRODUCT_IBM_HOME_AND_AWAY        0x002e
  pcmciadevs.h:#define    PCMCIA_STR_IBM_HOME_AND_AWAY    "IBM Home and Away Modem"
  pcmciadevs_data.h:          PCMCIA_VENDOR_IBM, PCMCIA_PRODUCT_IBM_HOME_AND_AWAY,
  pcmciadevs_data.h:          PCMCIA_CIS_IBM_HOME_AND_AWAY,

I believe these are the sources for the NetBSD 1.5 Kernel, though am
not certain.

Also, FYI from the LINUX side of things: in the source code from what
I believe is the driver for this device under 2.4, it says: A PCMCIA
ethernet driver for NS8390-based cards

So, is it time to buy a new NIC card for the laptop?

Anyway, thanks for the help.
- Sincerely,
  Scott Williams