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From: Mark Rowlands <fuc952d@tninet.se>
To: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Xircom Card/laptop
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:02:16 +0100
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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.

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