Subject: Re: PCMCIA cards
To: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
From: Aymeric Vincent <Aymeric.Vincent@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>
List: port-amiga
Date: 08/20/2000 20:45:07
        Hi,

Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

> Yup, but I want to move away from those crappy PCMCIA network cards (right
> now, nothing moves in my home network because one of those cards broke and
> the other systems are waiting for NFS). That's why I want to go wireless,

If I may give you a piece of advice, try before you buy. I have two
NE2000 PCMCIA cards, one works just fine under both AmigaOS and
NetBSD/amiga, while the other hangs the A1200 as soon as attribute
memory is read. This is a hardware problem on the Amiga side, as
Ignatios said.

The only thing I can tell you is that the awi driver compiles OK, but
I never had any such card to test.

BTW, Ignatios, here are the drivers that compile (the ones commented
out caused a kernel build failure the last time I tried some months
ago) :

pccard0         at mainbus0
pcmcia*         at pccard0
com*            at pcmcia? function ?           # Modems and serial cards
pcmcom*         at pcmcia? function ?           # PCMCIA multi-port serial cards
aic*            at pcmcia? function ?           # Adaptec APA-1460 SCSI
wdc*            at pcmcia? function ?
awi*            at pcmcia? function ?           # BayStack 650 (802.11FH)
#ep*            at pcmcia? function ?           # 3Com 3c589 and 3c562 Ethernet
mbe*            at pcmcia? function ?           # MB8696x based Ethernet
ne*             at pcmcia? function ?           # NE2000-compatible Ethernet
sm*             at pcmcia? function ?           # Megahertz Ethernet
mhzc*           at pcmcia? function ?    # Megahertz Ethernet/Modem combo cards
com*            at mhzc?
sm*             at mhzc?


regards,
 Aymeric