Subject: Re: DE-660
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Mark White <mjw@celos.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/11/2001 10:09:48
Patrick Welche writes:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:24:06PM +0100, Mark White wrote:
> > I know this question has been asked once before, but
> > possibly other people have tried since then: has anybody got
> > a D-link DE-660+ PCMCIA network card working, on any NetBSD
> > release?
> 
> Just tried and failed, but it could be user error ;)
> 
> ifconfig up
> ifconfig -m shows "manual"
> ifconfig ne0 inet xxx
> ping -n xxx
> nothing..
> remove card before ifconfig down -> stiff the laptop

Hmn, what kernel was that?  Late last night I tried the most
recent -current snapshot (second 1.5X snapshot), and it
recognised my card correctly as ne0; the previous snapshot
(only a month before) didn't.  The one that did find it,
however, produced a kernel panic as soon as I tried to use
it (I can reproduce it if anybody's interested).  Note that
I was using a DE-660+, which produces a different ID from
the DE-660, and was only added in June; I assume they're
fairly similar inside, though.

It looks, from a quick check of CVS around June in
dev/pcmcia/if_ne_pcmcia.c and friends (and also from some
PRs submitted against this card on /amiga) like all that's
required to make it find ne0 correctly is a small change to
the driver database, no change to the actual driver code.
The laptop in question is quite old (486 8MB) so I will
probably try patching a stable (1.5.2) in this way soon.

Mark <><