Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 21:38:25 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <s.mitchell@computer.org> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install on DELL Latitude and Xircom CreditCard Ethernet Message-ID: <20000208213825.22434@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000207163740.A58810@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from Crist J. Clark on Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:37:41PM -0500 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> <20000207163740.A58810@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:37:41PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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. Indeed you can't. > 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. It might not be a total wipeout -- we've had about a 50% success rate with the few CE2 users who've posted on freebsd-xircom. Getting the driver to work for the (easily ten times as many) CE3/CEM56 users has been the priority, though. So you never know, it might just work, or start to work with a little encouragement. I'd get rid of PAO unless you really need it for some other card; it will only complicate diagnosis of any problems. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" s.mitchell@computer.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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