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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.Sh HISTORY
160The
161.Nm
162driver appeared in
163.Nx 1.3 .
164.Sh BUGS
165.Ss IO space conflicts
166.Nx
167probes the
168.Tn PCMCIA
169IO bus width and uses that information to decide
170where to map
171.Tn PCMCIA
172IO space.
173For 10-bit wide cards, 0x300-0x3ff is used.
174For 12-bit wide cards, 0x400-0x4ff is used.
175.Pp
176Neither choice is perfect.
177In the 12-bit case, 0x400 appears to work
178in substantially more devices than 0x300.
179In the event that
180.Tn PCMCIA
181devices are mapped in 0x400-0x4ff and appear to be nonfunctional,
182remapping to 0x300-0x3ff may be appropriate; consult
183.Cd options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE
184and
185.Cd options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOSIZE
186in
187.Xr options 4 .
188Example:
189.Bd -literal -offset indent
190# Avoid PCMCIA bus space conflicts with the default IO space
191# allocation on 12-bit wide busses (base 0x300 size 0xff).
192options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE=0x300
193options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOSIZE=0x0ff
194.Ed
195.Ss Interrupt conflicts
196.Nx
197attempts to probe for available interrupts to assign to
198.Tn PCMCIA
199devices.
200In some cases, it is not possible to detect
201all interrupts in use; in such cases, use of
202.Cd options PCIC_ISA_INTR_ALLOC_MASK
203may be necessary.
204See
205.Xr options 4 .
206.Ss Unconfigured devices
207During autoconfiguration, if a message is displayed saying that your card
208is "not configured" it indicates that there isn't support for your card
209compiled into the kernel.
210To fix this problem, it may simply be a matter
211of adding the manufacturer and product IDs to the
212.Tn PCMCIA
213database or adding a front-end attachment to an existing driver.
214In the latter case, it is normally always necessary to get a dump
215of the CIS table from the card.
216You can do this by adding
217.Cd options PCMCIACISDEBUG
218and
219.Cd options PCMCIADEBUG
220into your kernel config file.
221Additionally, you will have to patch the kernel to enable run-time
222debugging.
223This can be done in the source by changing the variables
224.Va pcmcia_debug
225and
226.Va pcmciacis_debug
227to 0xff.
228Alternatively, you can patch the same variables at run-time using
229.Xr ddb 4 .
230For most drivers you should also consider enabling any driver-specific
231debugging options.
232