From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 3 20:18:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from endplay.inode.org (cpu1532.adsl.bellglobal.com [206.47.27.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBDD37B502 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:18:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coup.inode.org (coup.inode.org [172.16.2.203]) by endplay.inode.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA04630 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 23:18:39 -0400 (EDT) From: David Jones To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD on notebook w/ Xircom adapter Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 23:12:04 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00100323183802.00372@coup.inode.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am in the market for a notebook computer. Which will have my favorite = OS installed on it. I was in the showroom today with the 4.1-RELEASE KERN and MFSROOT disks t= o check compatability. Everything seems to work, except for the Ethernet c= ard - a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 (CEM56), which if_xe.c cla= ims to support. Is this driver present in the kernel on the install floppies? It is pres= ent in the GENERIC configuration file - is that what's used on the install flopp= ies? After booting into the installation system, I invoked the emergency holog= raphic shell and did "ifconfig -a". No Ethernet devices showed up. Is there anything I have to do during the initial install to enable these devices? My preferred method of installing is to fetch the packages usin= g FTP, then install from a LAN-based NFS or FTP server. Therefore, I need Ether= net to be working on the install-boot floppy. Is there a better compatibility acceptance test? Something I can do reas= onably quickly in the showroom, without destroying the demo model (i.e. no trash= ing the hard disk). I am not about to plunk down CAD$3500 on a nice new notebook unless I am 100% sure that it can run FreeBSD with Ethernet and modem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message