Re: NetBSD 9 PC card network drivers for IBM Workpad Z50

[Warner Losh <imp%bsdimp.com@localhost>]

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 8:01 AM D Walton <walton.david%sky.com@localhost> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I managed to download NetBSD 7 using the PC Card, but when I tried to
> download NetBSD 9.1 it did not recognise the PC Card was stuck as does not
> have an Ethernet port. The IBM Workpad Z50 needs WPC11 v3 as v4 or later
> comes with the gold connector and is 32 bit this one is 16 bit I think.
>

The IBM WorkPad z50 has only 16-bit PC Card support. There's no way to
connect a PCI or CardBus 32-bit card to any of the hpcmips machines because
the underlying hardware simply didn't support it at all. The cards with the
"gold" connectors are 32-bit CardBus cards and cannot work.

Warner


> Isn’t there any way of copying across the driver from version 7 to version
> 9?
>
> Kind regards
>
> David
>
> > On 4 May 2021, at 12:48, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 12:36:19PM +0100, D Walton wrote:
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> ?The makeand model is as stated Linksys Network PC Card WPC11 ver 3
> (version 4 or later did not work for NetBSD 7). I don?t have the drivers
> for it but here are more details:
> >
> > That does not help. I mean: (a) why do you think it worked for NetBSD 7?
> > Do you know first hand? If so, what driver did it use there?
> >
> > (b) why do you think it is not supported in newer NetBSD? You could
> > show output from dmesg after inserting that card for example.
> >
> > My bet would be some kind of Atheros chipset, so either ath(4) or athn(4)
> > could work.
> >
> > Martin
>
>