[rescue] voyager and pcmcia wifi with solaris

[Andy Piercy]

I have a voyager running at 110mhz with a heating fan from a b100 blade. I
had to shave some of the plastic case to fit the heating/ fan in and it's
mostly reliable but hangs if the ambient temp is high. So maybe not a
recommended mod.

On Sun, 9 Nov 2025, 10:12 Dan Moisa via rescue, <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the tip.
>
> BTW, I'm finding it impossible to mount a FAT pcmcia storage device. I can
> see it detected, there's a device for it in /dev/dsk, I can dd that device
> and get the FAT header, but it won't mount with -F pcfs or any other
> combinations of partitions/etc that I can think of. Nothing on the
> internet, any advice?
>
> Thanks again,
> Dan.
>
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM Romain Dolbeau <romain at dolbeau.org> wrote:
>
>> Le dim. 9 nov. 2025 à 10:10, Dan Moisa <dmoisa at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> >  I also noticed that the CPU itself is labeled -70, but reported by the
>> system to be running at 60Mhz
>>
>> Yep, that's just a speed rating. If it's running at 60 MHz then it's
>> likely the SBus part is running at 20 MHz, and might not be rated for
>> higher.
>> At best, I wouldn't try more than 80 MHz with a -85 and 100 MHz with a
>> -110 (20*4, 20*5).
>>
>> > Romain you're likely right that a drop-in might not work out of the box
>> unless the clock multiplication is entirely internal
>>
>> IIRC, it runs at whatever clock is fed to it, then divides that by 3,
>> 4 or 5 to generate the bus/system clock using DIV_CNTL, hence the need
>> to replace the oscillator/crystal/... that produces the CPU clock.
>>
>> Cordially,
>>
>> --
>> Romain Dolbeau
>>
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