Subject: Re: PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge
To: Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/16/2002 05:26:31
Chris Jones wrote:

> After I experimented a little bit, I think it's not a PCI-cardbus 
> bridge.  Here's my dmesg output.  First, I booted with the PCI card 
> installed, but no wireless card in the PCMCIA slot:
>
> NetBSD 1.6_BETA4 (LEGOLAS) #0: Fri Jul 12 17:09:04 MDT 2002
> ...
> wi0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: Eumitcom WL11000P PCI WaveLAN/IEEE 
> 802.11 (rev. 0x02)
> wi0: interrupting at irq 10
> wi0:could not get mac address, attach failed
> wi0: failed to attach controller
>
>
> Then, I booted with the PCI card installed, and the wireless card in 
> the slot.  But the dmesg output was identical.
>
> So I think this card isn't really a bridge at all, but some 
> special-purpose card designed to work with a specific wireless card. 

That's right, it's a special purpose bridge chip.  I have similar one 
that works.
The code comes from OpenBSD&FreeBSD, so you might want to look there
to see if you can figure something out.

    -- Lennart