From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Feb 7 13:37:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7AF3FFE; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 13:37:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA59066; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:37:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:37:41 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Scott Mitchell Cc: cjclark@home.com, Warner Losh , Kevin Oberman , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install on DELL Latitude and Xircom CreditCard Ethernet Message-ID: <20000207163740.A58810@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <200002052251.OAA12829@ptavv.es.net> <200002060416.VAA12619@harmony.village.org> <20000205232730.B14610@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <20000206114217.12519@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000206114217.12519@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk>; from s.mitchell@computer.org on Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 11:42:17AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 11:42:17AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 11:27:30PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 09:16:07PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message <200002052251.OAA12829@ptavv.es.net> "Kevin Oberman" writes: > > > : Unfortunately the generic kernel is not built with support for the > > > : Xircom cards. This is mostly because of conflicts with other drivers, > > > > > > No. It isn't built with default because it doesn't work. > > > > Whoa!!! Hold on. Xircom CreditCard Ethernet IIps are said to be > > supported. From > > http://home.jp.FreeBSD.org/~toshi/PAO3/SUPPORTED.CARDS, > > I dunno about PAO, but the IIps is only semi-supported on my stock xe > driver (which comes with 3.3 and 3.4; you shouldn't need PAO to use it). > For 'semi-supported' read "it might work, it might not, we haven't worked > out why yet". Probably shouldn't mention this now, but you'd have been > better off with a Xircom CE3 card -- not only will it connect to 100Mbit > networks, but they generally work out of the box with the xe driver. I wanted to be able to do 10BaseT (RJ-45) or 10Base2 (BNC). I don't think I can do that with the CE3. But I did have the choice of getting a Linksys card... but I thought that the Xircom would be a better choice than a NE2000-clone. :( Guess that was a bad call. > Definitely worth joining the freebsd-xircom list while you get this sorted > out. Will do. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message