Billionton LNA-100B pcmcia ethernet problems

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Sat Oct 29 03:51:09 PDT 2005


Hi! So, is that mean, it should work in the final version of freebsd 6?? 
if yes, I can wait until version 6, since i am not in the hurry to use 
it... :D

thanks!

Alan

M. Warner Losh wrote:
> You need to have ed in your kernel.
>
> However, it would appear that this is a variation of this card that
> the FreeBSD kernel doesn't know about yet.  Some versions of this card
> have a manufacturer id of 0x021b instead of 0xffff.  I've added a new
> device ID to current for this.  I'll see what I can do about
> back-porting it to 5.x, but I no longer have any 5.x laptops around
> for easy testing so that may take a while.
>
> To add support yourself, you'll need to add the following line to
> pccarddevs near the other billionton entries:
>
> product BILLIONTON LNA100B	{ "Billionton", "LNA-100B", NULL, NULL } Billionton LNA-100B
>
> And then add a line like the following to if_ed_pccard.c in the
> ed_card_products section:
>         { PCMCIA_CARD(BILLIONTON, LNA100B, 0), NE2000DVF_AX88190},
> near the other BIOLLIONTON lines.  Rebuild, reinstall and try again.
>
> Warner
>
>   



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