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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? hpcmips pcmcia* at it8368e? controller ? socket ? pcmcia* at plumpcmcia? controller ? socket ? sh3 pcmcia* at shpcic? controller ? socket ?
DESCRIPTION
NetBSD provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) a.k.a. PC Card, CardBus devices.
SUPPORTED DEVICES
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 awi BayStack 650 wireless 802.11FH controller. 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 802.11 controller. 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
SEE ALSO
intro(4), options(4), aic(4), awi(4), cardbus(4), cnw(4), com(4), ep(4), esp(4), isa(4), mbe(4), mhzc(4), ne(4), pcic(4), pcmcom(4), ray(4), sm(4), tcic(4), wi(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). NetBSD 1.5 August 29, 2000 2
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