NAME
pcmcia —
introduction to PCMCIA (PC
Card) support
SYNOPSIS
pcmcia* at pcic? controller ? socket ?
pcmcia* at tcic? controller ? socket ?
pcmcia* at cardslot?
options PCMCIAVERBOSE
amiga
pcmcia* at pccard0
hpcmips
pcmcia* at it8368e? controller ? socket ?
pcmcia* at plumpcmcia? controller ? socket ?
hpcsh
pcmcia* at hd64461pcmcia? controller ? socket ?
sh3
pcmcia* at shpcic? controller ? socket ?
sparc
pcmcia* at nell?
DESCRIPTION
NetBSD provides machine-independent bus support and
drivers for PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association)
a.k.a. PC Card, CardBus devices.
HARDWARE
NetBSD includes the following machine-independent PCMCIA
drivers, sorted by function and driver name:
Serial interfaces and
modems
-
-
- com
- 8250/16450/16550-compatible PCMCIA serial cards and
modems.
Network interfaces
-
-
- an
- Aironet 4500/4800 and Cisco 340 series 802.11
controller.
-
-
- awi
- 802.11 controller based on the AMD PCnetMobile
chipset.
-
-
- cnw
- Netwave AirSurfer Wireless LAN interface.
-
-
- ep
- 3Com 3c589 EtherLink III Ethernet card.
-
-
- mbe
- Ethernet card based on the Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
chipset.
-
-
- mhzc
- Megahertz Ethernet/Modem combo cards
-
-
- ne
- NE2000 compatible cards.
-
-
- ray
- Raytheon Raylink and WebGear Aviator2.4 802.11
controller.
-
-
- sm
- Megahertz Ethernet card.
-
-
- wi
- Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE and PRISM-II based 802.11
controller.
-
-
- xi
- Xircom CreditCard Ethernet
SCSI controllers
-
-
- aic
- Adaptec APA-1460 SCSI controller card.
-
-
- esp
- NCR 53C9x, Emulex ESP406, and Qlogic FAS408 SCSI
controllers.
-
-
- spc
- Fujitsu MB87030/MB89352 SCSI controllers.
IDE controllers
-
-
- wdc
- Digital Hinote Ultra Mobile Media Adapter
Bluetooth devices
-
-
- bt3c
- 3Com 3CRWB6096 Bluetooth PC Card driver.
-
-
- btbc
- AnyCom Bluetooth BlueCard driver.
USB Controller
-
-
- slhci
- Cypress/ScanLogic SL811HS USB Host Controller driver.
SEE ALSO
aic(4),
an(4),
awi(4),
bt3c(4),
btbc(4),
cardbus(4),
cnw(4),
com(4),
ep(4),
esp(4),
intro(4),
isa(4),
mbe(4),
mhzc(4),
ne(4),
options(4),
pcic(4),
pcmcom(4),
ray(4),
slhci(4),
sm(4),
spc(4),
tcic(4),
wi(4),
xi(4)
HISTORY
The
pcmcia driver appeared in
NetBSD
1.3.
BUGS
IO space conflicts
NetBSD probes the PCMCIA IO bus width and uses that
information to decide where to map PCMCIA IO space. For 10-bit wide cards,
0x300-0x3ff is used. For 12-bit wide cards, 0x400-0x4ff is used.
Neither choice is perfect. In the 12-bit case, 0x400 appears to work in
substantially more devices than 0x300. In the event that PCMCIA devices are
mapped in 0x400-0x4ff and appear to be nonfunctional, remapping to 0x300-0x3ff
may be appropriate; consult
options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE
and
options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOSIZE in
options(4). Example:
# Avoid PCMCIA bus space conflicts with the default IO space
# allocation on 12-bit wide busses (base 0x300 size 0xff).
options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE=0x300
options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOSIZE=0x0ff
Interrupt conflicts
NetBSD attempts to probe for available interrupts to
assign to PCMCIA devices. In some cases, it is not possible to detect all
interrupts in use; in such cases, use of
options
PCIC_ISA_INTR_ALLOC_MASK may be necessary. See
options(4).
During autoconfiguration, if a message is displayed saying that your card is
"not configured" it indicates that there isn't support for your card
compiled into the kernel. To fix this problem, it may simply be a matter of
adding the manufacturer and product IDs to the PCMCIA database or adding a
front-end attachment to an existing driver. In the latter case, it is normally
always necessary to get a dump of the CIS table from the card. You can do this
by adding
options PCMCIACISDEBUG and
options
PCMCIADEBUG into your kernel config file. Additionally, you will have to
patch the kernel to enable run-time debugging. This can be done in the source
by changing the variables
pcmcia_debug and
pcmciacis_debug to 0xff. Alternatively, you can patch
the same variables at run-time using
ddb(4). For most drivers you should
also consider enabling any driver-specific debugging options.