Subject: Re: pcmcia patches and 3c589C (combo)
To: None <laine@morningstar.com>
From: the Riz <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/05/1996 12:08:44
You wrote:

> I borrowed a 3c589c PCMCIA ethernet card, plugged it into my laptop (a
> Toshiba 410CDT) and tried booting up an OpenBSD install diskette to see
> if the pcmcia patches would work properly with this combination (if it
> does, I'll make my own NetBSD kernel with the patches). It recognized
> the card just fine, but when I ifconfiged it up, the only host it could
> see on the network was itself. I did this on both TP and coax, and tried
> all 4 combinations of link? options in the ifconfig commandline.

> Is there some other program I need to run to make this work? Have others
> had success with the 589C card and the pcmcia patches? If I can make it
> work, I'll get one of these cards for myself and have a truly useful
> machine (currently the thing has BSDI and a XirCom. Yuck.)

> Laine

Yep, I've got -current as of about May 30th running on a Toshiba (forget
the exact model number at the moment) with a 3c589 and a MegaHertz 28.8
modem.  I can send you a kernel and my config if you'd like; contact me via
private email.

+j

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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz