MorphOS PowerUP and PCMCIA network adapters

[itix]

Just as a guess - do you think it's rather a problem of the 3c589-driver or a real hardware-problem (e.g. conflict with Mediator)? Would it be worthwhile getting a cnet-based PCMCIA-card?

You are not the only having problem with 3c589 driver in MorphOS. It just fails to work. I once tried to look into driver source code but without having a hardware it is next to impossible to do anything about it.

[LawlessPPC]

no probs here with MosPUP and 3c589.device make sure you have pccard.library if i remember rightly

[Piru]

Well, I can think of only two possible reasons why card.resource would not be added to the system.

a) Memory overlapping the PCMCIA area exist in the system.
b) PCMCIA interface wasn't available at the time MorphOS 'startup' was launched (say maybe different ROM version being softkicked at that time).

I wrote a tiny program that dumps various info about the state of the PCMCIA support:
pcmciacheck.bin
It's an amiga executable, and it can be run under both AmigaOS and MorphOS. I'd be interested to see the output from it, both under AOS and MOS.

[humppa]

It's an amiga executable, and it can be run under both AmigaOS and MorphOS. I'd be interested to see the output from it, both under AOS and MOS.

Ok, here we go...

AOS 3.9:

PCMCIA interface: available
card.resource resident: available
card.resource resource: available and opens ok

Morphos Powerup:

PCMCIA interface: unavailable
card.resource resident: available
card.resource resource: unavailable and fails to open

I am always cold-booting Morphos (highest bootpri anyway) and using a bog-standard A1200 40.68 kickstart.rom as $kickstart.

Also note that I have both BVision and Mediator/Voodoo3/RTL8039/SB128 installed. Mediator is set to 4MB memory window to prevent PCMCIA-conflicts.

I will check setting the memory window to a different size and rechecking the Mediator jumpers, maybe I'll even completely remove it.

Piru, thanks a lot so far and please tell me if you have an idea what the above could mean or imply.

[humppa]

@LawlessPPC

no probs here with MosPUP and 3c589.device make sure you have pccard.library if i remember rightly

Good to hear that at least someone got the 3c589.device running with MOS PUP.
I have version 1.1 of pccard.library installed in both Sys:Libs and Mossys:Libs and I use 3c589.device version 1.4.
Are you using MOSNet? What kind of kick.rom?

[Piru]

Hmm, most interesting. Could you try running the cmd instead of the morphos 'startup' (that is: not booting into full AOS 3.9, I'd like to see what the startup will see...) ?

[humppa]

@Piru

Booting with no startup-sequence I get the same as if I boot into a full AOS3.9:

"PCMCIA interface: available
card.resource resident: available
card.resource resource: available and opens ok"

One odd thing that I always noticed with MOS PUP Startup 0.48 was, that after the first reboot, MOS didn't boot up from itself - it only starts booting after I press return. It might have nothing to do with the above, just thought I'd let you know.

Should I now place pcmciacheck with an "echo on" somewhere in the startup? Try with fakerom instead kick4068.rom? Re-extract my kickstart-rom?

[Piru]

Uhh. I don't get it, the card.resource is available and appears to work. It should be available under MorphOS then, too, but for some reason it's not. I'm afraid I'm out of ideas now.

[humppa]

FINALLY! :pint:

I booted with different Mediator jumper settings and the "0MB" setting made all the difference:

Finally I got the following under Morphos:

PCMCIA interface: available
card.resource resident: available
card.resource resource: available and opens ok

So although Elbox claims that the 4MB setting is the "PCMCIA-friendly one", it's memory swapping still seems to conflict somehow with the PCMCIA-space. Weird.

The only downside now: I am unable to use devices under OS3.9 that rely on the 4MB/8MB setting, i.e. the Voodoo3 which I used for OS3.9.
So either I will have to completely switch to BVision, or re-jumper each time that I switch between OS3.9 and Morphos Powerup.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your help!