On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:52:48 -0800 J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:45:24 -0800 rhubbell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm new to OpenBSD and so far so good. > > One thing I am floundering around on is that I cannot get my 3Com > > card working. > > You're new, so you might want to read the following: > > http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html > [quote] > "Include important information > Don't waste everyone's time with a hopelessly incomplete question. > No one other than you has the information needed to resolve your > problem, it is better to provide more information than needed than one > detail too little. Any question should include at least the version of > OpenBSD (i.e., "3.2-stable", "3.3-current as of July 20, 2003"). Any > hardware related questions should mention the platform (i.e., sparc, > alpha, etc.), and provide a full dmesg(8)." > [/quote]
Ok. I guess once I'm here for a while I can waste everyone's time with nasty analogies (see other thrd about "platform of choice") (^: > > The reason for that last bit about providing a "full dmesg" is the full > dmesg shows lots of important details. In a sense, you can think of > the full demeg as showing a picture of your full environment. Yes, sure does. I guess I got lucky this time and picked the right lines to include from dmesg. > > > The device 3CCFE575CT exists already and I added the entries for > > 3CXFE575CT. > > The product model number is not always indicative of the chips used > inside the product. But in your case, this is irrelevant. Right. According to notes in the source they were same except by name and how you physically connect the cable. > > > cbb1 at pci1 dev 4 function 0 "TI PCI1620 CardBus" rev 0x01: apic 2 > > int 16 (irq 11), CardBus support disabled > > > > cbb2 at pci1 dev 4 function 1 "TI PCI1620 CardBus" rev 0x01: apic 2 > > int 16 (irq 11), CardBus support disabled > > Take a look inside /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/pccbvar.h > HINT: The "TI PCI1620" is not listed. > > In short, there might not be anything "wrong" with your 3com card, but > instead, the PCMCIA/CardBus controller (i.e. slot) is not supported. Ah, ok, so looks like I am tsol, thanks for the help. FWIW, am on 4.6-stable, have been using OpenBSD for one week.
