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30.Dd January 3, 2009
31.Dt PCMCIA 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm pcmcia
35.Nd
36introduction to
37.Tn PCMCIA
38.Pq Tn "PC Card"
39support
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Cd "pcmcia* at pcic? controller ? socket ?"
42.Cd "pcmcia* at tcic? controller ? socket ?"
43.Cd "pcmcia* at cardslot?"
44.Pp
45.Cd options PCMCIAVERBOSE
46.Ss amiga
47.Cd "pcmcia* at pccard0"
48.Ss hpcmips
49.Cd "pcmcia* at it8368e? controller ? socket ?"
50.Cd "pcmcia* at plumpcmcia? controller ? socket ?"
51.Ss hpcsh
52.Cd "pcmcia* at hd64461pcmcia? controller ? socket ?"
53.Ss sh3
54.Cd "pcmcia* at shpcic? controller ? socket ?"
55.Ss sparc
56.Cd "pcmcia* at nell?"
57.Sh DESCRIPTION
58.Nx
59provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for
60.Tn PCMCIA
61.Pq Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
62a.k.a.
63.Tn "PC Card" ,
64.Tn CardBus
65devices.
66.Sh HARDWARE
67.Nx
68includes the following machine-independent
69.Tn PCMCIA
70drivers, sorted by function and driver name:
71.Ss Serial interfaces and modems
72.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
73.It com
748250/16450/16550-compatible PCMCIA serial cards and modems.
75.El
76.Ss Network interfaces
77.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
78.It an
79Aironet 4500/4800 and Cisco 340 series 802.11 controller.
80.It awi
81802.11 controller based on the AMD PCnetMobile chipset.
82.It cnw
83Netwave AirSurfer Wireless LAN interface.
84.It ep
853Com 3c589 EtherLink III Ethernet card.
86.It mbe
87Ethernet card based on the Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A chipset.
88.It mhzc
89Megahertz Ethernet/Modem combo cards
90.It ne
91NE2000 compatible cards.
92.It ray
93Raytheon Raylink and WebGear Aviator2.4 802.11 controller.
94.It sm
95Megahertz Ethernet card.
96.It wi
97Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE and PRISM-II based 802.11 controller.
98.It xi
99Xircom CreditCard Ethernet
100.El
101.Ss SCSI controllers
102.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
103.It aic
104Adaptec APA-1460
105.Tn SCSI
106controller card.
107.It esp
108NCR 53C9x, Emulex ESP406, and Qlogic FAS408
109.Tn SCSI
110controllers.
111.It spc
112Fujitsu MB87030/MB89352
113.Tn SCSI
114controllers.
115.El
116.Ss IDE controllers
117.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
118.It wdc
119Digital Hinote Ultra Mobile Media Adapter
120.El
121.Ss Bluetooth devices
122.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
123.It bt3c
1243Com 3CRWB6096 Bluetooth PC Card driver.
125.It btbc
126AnyCom Bluetooth BlueCard driver.
127.El
128.Ss USB Controller
129.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
130.It slhci
131Cypress/ScanLogic SL811HS USB Host Controller driver.
132.El
133.Sh SEE ALSO
134.Xr aic 4 ,
135.Xr an 4 ,
136.Xr awi 4 ,
137.Xr bt3c 4 ,
138.Xr btbc 4 ,
139.Xr cardbus 4 ,
140.Xr cnw 4 ,
141.Xr com 4 ,
142.Xr ep 4 ,
143.Xr esp 4 ,
144.Xr intro 4 ,
145.Xr isa 4 ,
146.Xr mbe 4 ,
147.Xr mhzc 4 ,
148.Xr ne 4 ,
149.Xr options 4 ,
150.Xr pcic 4 ,
151.Xr pcmcom 4 ,
152.Xr ray 4 ,
153.Xr slhci 4 ,
154.Xr sm 4 ,
155.Xr spc 4 ,
156.Xr tcic 4 ,
157.Xr wi 4 ,
158.Xr xi 4
159.Pp
160.Pa http://www.pcmcia.org/
161.Sh HISTORY
162The
163.Nm
164driver appeared in
165.Nx 1.3 .
166.Sh BUGS
167.Ss IO space conflicts
168.Nx
169probes the
170.Tn PCMCIA
171IO bus width and uses that information to decide
172where to map
173.Tn PCMCIA
174IO space.
175For 10-bit wide cards, 0x300-0x3ff is used.
176For 12-bit wide cards, 0x400-0x4ff is used.
177.Pp
178Neither choice is perfect.
179In the 12-bit case, 0x400 appears to work
180in substantially more devices than 0x300.
181In the event that
182.Tn PCMCIA
183devices are mapped in 0x400-0x4ff and appear to be nonfunctional,
184remapping to 0x300-0x3ff may be appropriate; consult
185.Cd options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE
186and
187.Cd options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOSIZE
188in
189.Xr options 4 .
190Example:
191.Bd -literal -offset indent
192# Avoid PCMCIA bus space conflicts with the default IO space
193# allocation on 12-bit wide busses (base 0x300 size 0xff).
194options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE=0x300
195options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOSIZE=0x0ff
196.Ed
197.Ss Interrupt conflicts
198.Nx
199attempts to probe for available interrupts to assign to
200.Tn PCMCIA
201devices.
202In some cases, it is not possible to detect
203all interrupts in use; in such cases, use of
204.Cd options PCIC_ISA_INTR_ALLOC_MASK
205may be necessary.
206See
207.Xr options 4 .
208.Ss Unconfigured devices
209During autoconfiguration, if a message is displayed saying that your card
210is "not configured" it indicates that there isn't support for your card
211compiled into the kernel.
212To fix this problem, it may simply be a matter
213of adding the manufacturer and product IDs to the
214.Tn PCMCIA
215database or adding a front-end attachment to an existing driver.
216In the latter case, it is normally always necessary to get a dump
217of the CIS table from the card.
218You can do this by adding
219.Cd options PCMCIACISDEBUG
220and
221.Cd options PCMCIADEBUG
222into your kernel config file.
223Additionally, you will have to patch the kernel to enable run-time
224debugging.
225This can be done in the source by changing the variables
226.Va pcmcia_debug
227and
228.Va pcmciacis_debug
229to 0xff.
230Alternatively, you can patch the same variables at run-time using
231.Xr ddb 4 .
232For most drivers you should also consider enabling any driver-specific
233debugging options.
234