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Date:      Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:28:12 -0500
From:      Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>
To:        jerry@thehutt.org
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell Inspiron 5000e with 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC Card 3CXFE574BT
Message-ID:  <3C35D81C.9060609@digitaldaemon.com>
References:  <3C34CF99.4020906@digitaldaemon.com> <20020103220131.GD15223@pir.net> <20020103221155.GA5931@nomad.thehutt.org>

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OK, this worked!

I just downgraded from CURRENT to 4.5-PRERELEASE and added this to 
/etc/pccard.conf, that was not quite enough... I also had to add 
pccard_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf, but after that it works fine!

Thanks 1E6!
Jan



Jerry A! wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:01:32PM -0500, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
>: Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com> probably said:
>: > Dell Inspiron 5000e with 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC Card 3CXFE574BT
>: > Just wondered if anyone is using this combination with FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE.
>: > I am running CURRENT now, but experience too much problems.
>:
>: I believe that 3com card is cardbus (I could be wrong but I didn't
>: think 3com made any 10/100 non-cardbus cards), if so it won't work
>: with -STABLE.
>
>Actually the 574 is pccard and not cardbus.  My guess is that the
>original poster's rev of the card may not be in pccard.conf.
>
>Jan, try adding the following entry to /etc/defaults/pccard.conf:
>
># 3Com Megahertz 574BT same as 3Com Fast Etherlink 3C574B
># this is a hack based on the 574BT entry
>card "3Com" "Megahertz 574BT"
>        config  auto "ep" ? 0x1
>        insert  /etc/pccard_ether $device start
>        remove  /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
>
>
>You may need to tweak the "card" line to match the strings that your
>card puts out.
>
>        --Jerry
>
>Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death...
>...It's much more important than that!
>
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