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

[D Walton <walton.david%sky.com@localhost>]

You are correct that the PCcard I must use is the 16 bit version, and the 32 bit have the gold strip. However you are incorrect in saying they do not work as it did for version 7 of hpcmips. Could someone look to see if this support could be included into a future release of version 9 as after all the concept is to support legacy computers.

Regards
David

> On 4 May 2021, at 15:26, Warner Losh <imp%bsdimp.com@localhost> wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 8:01 AM D Walton <walton.david%sky.com@localhost> wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Warner
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>> Isn’t there any way of copying across the driver from version 7 to version 9?
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>> Kind regards
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>> David
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>> > 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
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>> >> ?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:
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>> > 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?
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>> > (b) why do you think it is not supported in newer NetBSD? You could
>> > show output from dmesg after inserting that card for example.
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>> > My bet would be some kind of Atheros chipset, so either ath(4) or athn(4)
>> > could work.
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>> > Martin
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