[rescue] voyager and pcmcia wifi with solaris

[Dan Moisa]

Awesome, can you share more about how you got it done?

Thanks,
Dan.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2025, 04:49 Andy Piercy <andy.piercy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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