Systems Administrator wrote:
> A second consideration is the possible use of an old US
> Logic ethernet adapter. I would assume that the electrical
> charachteristics of the neponset PCMCIA are such that
> this standard PCMCIA card will operate correctly in the
> neponset PCMCIA slot.
I wouldn't assume anything about the Neponset PCMCIA slot. =)
> But if I try to use this card I get:
>
> "pcnet_cs: unable to read hardware net address"
The driver tried a number of methods for discovering the MAC address in the card
attribute memory, via the 8390 itself, or through other random avenues. None of
them worked.
When adding support for the LP-E CF+ card, I used the brute force approach of
sweeping attribute memory in search of the first three octets of the MAC address.
(These should be consistent across all models of that card, and are hopefully
written on the card somewhere.) When I found it, I noted the offset in attribute
space, and added an entry to hw_info[]. With that in place, get_hwinfo() should
succeed.
-jd
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