[SunRescue] Sun Sbus PCMCIA??

[Chris Byrne]

I have one of them, currently for sale in fact as I have no SBUS machines
any more.

There is support for the prism wireless lan card chipset, as well as for
flash memory, and other PCMCIA (or PCMCIA converter) memory cards that can
hold a standard filesystem, and PCMCIA based disk, cd-rom, and cd-rw drives.

Many cardbus cards will operate properly in standard type I/II slots but
will not use the powersaving features or high bandwidth provided by cardbus.

I never had a lockup problem before, but I can understand why it might
happen.

Just a theory here

The 3COM ethernet cards by default try and grab resources immediately on
powerup since in the wonderful world of Plug n Pray first in wins (this I am
certain of). It probably sends an unrecognized interrupt during a phase in
the boot process that the kernel is not expecting it, and the kernel trap
handler pukes (this I'm not sure of since I dont know all that much about
the deep kernel internals on Solaris)

Chris Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Tim Chong
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 10:19
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Cc: dbarile at interserv.com
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Sun Sbus PCMCIA??


>I was wondering if they would handle the wireless Net cards that are
>in service now. Or perhaps a modem or 100bt card?

I read somewhere there's a beta driver once for WaveLAN card, have not tried
that myself.. so can't comment on that. You should have no problem with any
modem card as they are serial devices.

I don't think there's any 100BT card support as almost all the card are
Cardbus card, the only ethernet driver that is available is the 3COM card
(see docs.sun.com for more info)-pcelx driver.

I noted something with my sbus PCMCIA (on my SS20, Sol 2.6) is that I can't
have the card (only tried with a 3COM ethernet card) inserted when the
machine boot up as it will lock up... need to insert that after the machine
has finished booting up

Tim

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