Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:31:32 -0600 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Network Everywhere (Linksys) NP100 PCMCIA card Message-ID: <1096659092.415db0949d674@webmail.jnielsen.net>
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I have an older laptop (Thinkpad 365XD) that I'm trying to bring (somewhat) up to speed. It has no onboard ethernet, but it does have two 16-bit PCMCIA slots. I picked up the only 16-bit network card I could find at a local retailer, which was the Network Everywhere (i.e. low-end Linksys) NP100 card. The card works fine under Windows (and even DOS). I installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA3 onto the laptop, built a kernel with OLDCARD options, and enabled pccardd. When I insert the network card into the slot, it is recognized correctly and attached to the 'ed' driver. However, the detected MAC address is wrong (it begins 1b:...), and the card seems to operate in "write-only" mode. For instance, a request for a DHCP lease will be sent and the server will respond, but the laptop never reads the response and eventually gets a timeout error. I was wondering if anyone else has had any experince with this card (good or bad) under any 4.x or 5.x version of FreeBSD. I found a few threads on Google but none of them seemed applicable (except perhaps the ones advising against using this particular card). It seems that this card was added to /etc/defaults/pccard.conf in the not-too-distant past, but I couldn't find the relevant commit logs or any discussion about it. Some of the threads I found talked about a revision 2 card; mine appears to be a revision 3. Any input would be very welcome. Please CC me as I am not currently subscribed to the list. Thank you, JN
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