SBus PCMCIA Adapter

Gavin Atkinson gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk
Tue Nov 30 05:38:27 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 01:25, Charlie Livingston wrote:
> I've got a Sun Ultra 1 (it may be an ultra 1E, i'm not sure) that i'm running
> at home as a firewall/nat/server for my home LAN.  It works flawlessly under
> FreeBSD 5.3 except for one issue;  For the life of me, I can't get the kernel
> to recognise the SBus PCMCIA adapter that came installed in the machine.  
> 
> I've added pcmcia/carbus support to the kernel and recompiled to no avail;
> 
> The kernel compiles cleanly without error, but dmesg still reports that the
> device has no driver attached to it.
> 
> I've attached my kernel config and dmesg output below, is there something I'm
> missing?

As I understand it, at the moment there is no support.  A while back
Warner was after a sbus-based Sparc so that he could work on pcmcia
support. Looks like his wish was granted about a month ago, so for now I
would suggest you wait or maybe email him and see if there's any testing
that you can help with.

Gavin


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