5.3-RC1 attempt with a Toshiba Libretto 70CT failed, 4.10 OK

[Julian H. Stacey]

"M. Warner Losh" wrote:
> In message: <200410270046.i9R0kV0K012290 at laps.jhs.private>
>             "Julian Stacey" <jhs at berklix.org> writes:
> : It gets further than 5.2.1-RELEASE, as 5.2.1 hangs quickly after first flop
> py
> : after trying to fetch modules off floppy with "No floppy devices found".
> 
> That's because there's no working support in current/5.x for the
> YE-Data pcmcia cards.  It still works in 4.x, but not 5.x, alas.  I've
> done some work to make it happy, but it still isn't happy with that
> work.  The first problem is the fast interrupt, but even with that
> fixed there's been enough changes in the floppy driver to make it no
> longer work.

Ah ! Thanks !
BTW on 4.10 The ftp through ep0 ethernet chugs along at 1 K byte / sec !
& expires half way through load of /bin
& Ive used that pcmcia ether card with FBSD before, its OK,
so it's the libretto.
I notice the install offers memory ranges before changing cards
	0xd0000 - 0xd3fff
	0xd4000 - 0xd7fff
	0xd8000 - 0xdbfff
	0xdc000 - 0xdffff
but I can't F4 to see what else is in use. I also tried deselecting a few IRQs,
a few too many, it paniced. If any furthe tips available I'm keen.
Funny this BTW, was easy on FBSD-2 or 3 a few years back
Perhaps I'll do a 2.2.8 or 3.4 install & then do a net upgrade 

> : 5.3-RC1 gets much further than 5.2.1 on this libretto: it loads
> : Boot, Kern1, Kern2, then Boot, goes through Fdsisk & disklabel, then
> : 	(as there's only 1 pcmcia slot, & I cant even with a device
> : 	rescan get it to see an ethernet pcmcia or pcmcia cdrom
> : 	card) ...  I try to do ftp install, using PLIP or SLIP ...
> : 	& find it doesnt see either of the 2 serials (I guess one
> : 	is mouse) or the parallel port, as well as not recognising
> : 	the fresh plugged in & rescanned 3C589C pcmcia ethernet
> : 	(that works well on other FreeBSD boxes)
> 
> That's because the L-50 and L-70 machines have only ISA PCMICA
> bridges, and that's not yet completely working.  I'll try to fix this
> as I have at least one older laptop that I'd like to see working that
> needs this.
> 
> Warner
> 
> 

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