Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:02:16 +0100 From: Mark Rowlands <fuc952d@tninet.se> To: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xircom Card/laptop Message-ID: <20020310190223.5449037B416@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20020310085234.A351@lymond.lvcm.com> References: <20020310085234.A351@lymond.lvcm.com>
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On Sunday 10 March 2002 5:52 pm, Dale Morris wrote: > I have an IBM thinkpad 600 laptop and a Xircom 10/100 56kModem credit > card pcmcia card. In order to get network connectivity I have to do the > following: > boot up > issue the command from root: > sysctl -w machdep.pccard.mem_start=0xd0000 > > insert the card, wait as it connects. Sometimes I have to reinsert the > card in order to establish a connection. > > I have tried adding the line: > machdep.pccard.mem_start="0xd0000" in /boot/loader.conf in order to pass > it to the kernel at boot time, but it just doesn't work. > > Is there something I'm missing here? > thanks I was given this patch (http://www.bsdchicks.com/xe.patch) to try by Rogier R. Mulhuijzen <drwilco@drwilco.net> but I haven't time yet.... and I have a working 3com card.....so motivation to find time is a little lacking > > Can you try and apply this patch: http://www.bsdchicks.com/xe.patch as a temporay work around, creating a pccard.conf file with the exact entries for the card (network section) only worked for me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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