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PCMCIA(4)                 NetBSD Programmer's Manual                 PCMCIA(4)


NAME

     pcmcia - introduction to PCMCIA (PC Card) support


SYNOPSIS

     pcmcia* at pcic? controller ? socket ?
     pcmcia* at tcic? controller ? socket ?
     pcmcia* at cardslot?

   amiga
     pcmcia* at pccard0

   hpcmips
     pcmcia* at it8368e? controller ? socket ?
     pcmcia* at plumpcmcia? 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 con-
                    trollers.

   IDE controllers

           wdc      Digital Hinote Ultra Mobile Media Adapter

   Audio devices

           esl      Eiger Labs ESS1688 AudioDrive.


SEE ALSO

     aic(4), an(4), awi(4), cardbus(4), cnw(4), com(4), ep(4), esl(4), esp(4),
     intro(4), isa(4), mbe(4), mhzc(4), ne(4), options(4), pcic(4), pcmcom(4),
     ray(4), sm(4), tcic(4), wi(4), xi(4)

     http://www.pcmcia.org/


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 on
     substantially more devices than 0x300. In the event that PCMCIA devices
     are mapped in 0x400-0xfff 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 0x400 size 0xfff).
           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 de-
     vices. 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).

   Unconfigured devices
     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 us-
     ing ddb(4).  For most drivers you should also consider enabling any driv-
     er-specific debugging options.

NetBSD 1.6.2                    August 29, 2000                              2