From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 28 23: 9:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from thalassa.informatimago.com (thalassa.informatimago.com [212.87.205.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EDAB37B445 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:09:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by thalassa.informatimago.com (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 1000) id C28B485CC6; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:09:10 +0100 (CET) From: Pascal Bourguignon To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Activating the Xircom PS-CE2-10 Ethernet PCCARD. Organization: InformatiMago. X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEF5E9966 X-PGP-fingerprint: 00 F5 7B DB CA 51 8A AD 04 5B 6C DE 32 60 16 8E EF 5E 99 66 X-PGP-Public-Key: http://www.informatimago.com/pgpkey.asc X-URL: http://www.informatimago.com/index X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Language: en Reply-To: Message-Id: <20020129070910.C28B485CC6@thalassa.informatimago.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:09:10 +0100 (CET) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I've seen several questions about problems with Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet cards. I've just installed 4.4-R on my DELL Latitude XPi 90ST, and had a similar problem: The first time I tried the installation, my Xircom PS-CE2-10 ethernet card did not activate itself. Then I restarted the installation procedure and it worked well. Then I booted FreeBSD, and could not make it work any more: removing and inserting it, or powering it off the powering it on would have pccardd correctly recognize and handle it and invoke pccard_ether, which could configure the xe0 driver without apparent problems, but the leds on the dongle stayed dead (yes, some Xircom ethernet cards have adaptator cable going from the PCMCIA card to a "dongle" with two leds (active & transmiting), either for TP or BNC), and "Host not reachable" was the only result I could get from ping. ifconfig reported the interface up. Well, it wasn't. Running: ifconfig xe0 down ; ifconfig xe0 up would resolve my problem, at least the card would connect to the network and start transmit packets. Perhaps it's only a problem with pccard_ether which does not explicitely put the interface up, or with other configuration scripts which don't put a up keyword in the ifconfig_${interface} configuration variables, whatever. -- __Pascal_Bourguignon__ (o_ Software patents are endangering () ASCII ribbon against html email //\ the computer industry all around /\ and Microsoft attachments. V_/ the world http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/ 1962:DO20I=1.100 2001:my($f)=`fortune`; http://petition.eurolinux.org/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d? s++:++(+++)>++ a C+++ UB+++L++++$S+X++++>$ P- L+++ E++ W++ N++ o-- K- w------ O- M++$ V PS+E++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5? X+ R !tv b++(+) DI+++ D++ G++ e+++ h+(++) r? y---? UF++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message