Re: NetBSD 9 PC card network drivers for IBM Workpad Z50

[D Walton <walton.david%sky.com@localhost>]

Hello,

I managed to download NetBSD 7 using the PC Card, but when I tried to download NetBSD 9.1 it did not recognise the PC Card was stuck as does not have an Ethernet port. The IBM Workpad Z50 needs WPC11 v3 as v4 or later comes with the gold connector and is 32 bit this one is 16 bit I think.

Isn’t there any way of copying across the driver from version 7 to version 9?

Kind regards

David

> On 4 May 2021, at 12:48, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 12:36:19PM +0100, D Walton wrote:
>> Hello
>> 
>> ?The makeand model is as stated Linksys Network PC Card WPC11 ver 3 (version 4 or later did not work for NetBSD 7). I don?t have the drivers for it but here are more details:
> 
> That does not help. I mean: (a) why do you think it worked for NetBSD 7?
> Do you know first hand? If so, what driver did it use there?
> 
> (b) why do you think it is not supported in newer NetBSD? You could
> show output from dmesg after inserting that card for example.
> 
> My bet would be some kind of Atheros chipset, so either ath(4) or athn(4)
> could work.
> 
> Martin