Subject: Re: SPARCbook and PCMCIA - testers wanted
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Sean Davis <erplefoo@gmail.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/12/2005 10:51:43
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:45:35 -0500, Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > My latest dbri code (port of the Linux driver) is available at
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jmcneill/ -- the machine has since
> > become my mailserver, so I'm unable to do any buildkernel/reboot/crash
> > testing with it. You might want to check out the code, I had almost all of
> > the work done for the audio parts (ISDN was completely ignored,
> > unfortunately).
> 
> Got it, I'll play with it later today. What's missing?
> 
> Btw. I did a quick port of OpenBSD's tslot driver for SPARCbook PCMCIA, only to find out that the wlan card I have here ( a d-link DWL-650 RevP ) doesn't work because it uses either a PRISM3 or something completely different, but since the manufacturer ID is Intersil I guess it's some sort of PRISM. So I made a test kernel ( it will spew a LOT of PCMCIA-related debugging info ) with all the network- and IDE drivers built in, get it here:
> http://macallan.homeunix.org:6704/stuff/BSD/sparc/SPARCbook3GX_PCMCIA_03_11.bz2
> 
> Please tell me...
> - if it works with anything
> - if it doesn't work with something
> - if the rest works
> 
> Since my only card here is unsupported I couldn't quite figure out if the driver really does The Right Thing(tm) - I think there's another wlan card here, if I could only find it...

Only PCMCIA card I own is a Cardbus NIC with one of those cursed
dongles that is, of course, broken. If I can find a friend with PCMCIA
card I can borrow long enough to test, I'll let you know.

-- 
Sean