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

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

On Fri Feb  3 05:14:03 EST 2006, m.ne@gmx.net wrote:
> * Lyndon Nerenberg (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.
> 
> I actually had the same trouble with a 589E. I solved it by putting the card
> into the second PCMCIA slot... Now the only thing is that the link indicator
> stays off, but I couldn't care less.
> 
> Good luck,
>    Martin

I meant to add this last night but it was late when I remembered.
Some older laptops with 2 slots have one PCMCIA and one set up as
Cardbus. Also, the Cardbus support in the kernel which appeared
after the last time I used a 589 may interfere with how things are
initialised. The 'pccard0=disabled' option may or may not help.
Along with plan9.ini, the output of /bin/pci may be useful.