Re: [9fans] Status of 3C589D driver (and BCM57XX)

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

On Thu Feb  2 21:44:40 EST 2006, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> Are there any known issues with the 3C589 driver?  I've been trying  
> to get a 589D PCMCIA card working on my laptop, with limited  
> success.  The card probes and net/ether0 appears, but I don't see any  
> data coming in.  The stats counters do show data being received, so  
> I'm a bit puzzled.
> 
> Now this could be a PCI interrupt routing issue -- a couple of odd  
> messages come up during the boot about IRQ5 and an unreachable south  
> bridge.  If the 589 driver is known to be working I'll boot the  
> laptop again and transcribe the relevant messages.
> ...

Yes, that's probably interrupts not being set up correctly.
Every laptop is a crapshoot. One way is to boot another O/S
(Windows has worked for me in the past) and note down the IRQs
used by the PCMCIA socket and that assigned to the 589D, then
use those in plan9.ini. I used to have this in an older laptop:

ether0=type=3C589 media=10BaseT irq=3
pcmcia0=type=xxx irq=9

Your plan9.ini and the messages you get might shed some light.

--jim