On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:39:20AM -0800, John Clark wrote:
> If you got to the point of getting a lease from the DHCP server, you
> got further than I did with the PCM100 card. On my install, NetBSD 1.5.2
> and a Compaq Presario 12XL125, the 'ne' driver found the 'Combo'
> card instead of the PCM100, and then indicated that the driver had
> 'lost the card'... well of course if it was really looking for a Combo...
> 

This happened to be when I booted under GENERIC, it would detect my card
as the Combo ECard, said something about it loosing the card, as you
said, and then lock the system if the card was removed. Under 
custom kernel, the card is detected as the ECard, but I am able to 
use dhclient to get a lease, TCP doesn't work at all though.

The precise message under my custom kernel:

ne0 at pcmcia1 function 0
ne0: Linksys Combo EthernetCard (DL10019) Ethernet
ne0: Ethernet address (mac address)

I just tried again under GENERIC, and got no message at all, very
strange, however when the card was removed, the computer froze. I
couldn't get to the kernel debugger (I cannot remember whether it is in
GENERIC...)

> I happen to have an older Combo Card and 'solved' the connectivity
> problem for the moment, and have not got back to the quest of 'why 
> doesn't
> this work'.
> 

I'm 90% sure that the issue is the card being incorrectly identified,
and all that is required is a port of the OpenBSD support (only a couple
of lines) unfortunatly those couple of lines are on the other side of my
understanding of the NetBSD code.

> I'm trying to get the wife out of town for her seminar presentation, so 
> perhaps
> 
> this week end I can spend a few minutes, hours, or what to find out why
> the card is not seen correctly.
> 

Thanks, I'm going to keep hacking at this and see if I can get anywhere. :)

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