From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 5 13: 8:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50AEC37B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp248.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.248]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e95K7Mi12491; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:07:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <00100323183802.00372@coup.inode.org> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 13:07:36 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: David Jones Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD on notebook w/ Xircom adapter Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 04-Oct-00 David Jones wrote: > 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 to > check compatability. Everything seems to work, except for the Ethernet card > - > a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 (CEM56), which if_xe.c claims > to > support. Err, the card is probably a cardbus card. FreeBSD doesn't support card-bus cards yet, so you'd have to find a PC-Card (aka PCMCIA) card to use with FreeBSD for the time being. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message