Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:05:06 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Mark Rowlands <fuc952d@tninet.se> Cc: jmkelly@ieee.org, John Kelly <jkelly@uclink.berkeley.edu>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new install, trying to get Xircom PC card to work Message-ID: <20020126130506.A296@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020126101155.2E88637B417@hub.freebsd.org>; from fuc952d@tninet.se on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:11:51AM %2B0100 References: <3C521E87.4004D3C8@uclink.berkeley.edu> <20020126101155.2E88637B417@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: > On Saturday 26 January 2002 4:12 am, John Kelly wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've got FreeBSD 4.4-release running on a Dell Latitude laptop with a > > Xircom RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100) PC card > > in it, and I can't figure out how to get the card to wake up. Card > > services seems to be running okay, it sees that a card has been > > inserted, but the system comes up with no Ethernet device. > > > > I found the source for the right driver, xe, but when I try to compile > > xe.c I get an error: "if_xe.c:138: card_if.h: No such file or > > directory." > > > > Beyond that, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to integrate the xe > > driver with the kernel even if I could manage to compile it. I've tried > > RTFMing, but haven't seemed to find the right page yet. All help will be > > appreciated. > > > > unless I am mistaken, support for cardbus is not yet incorporated in 4.x, it > is due for inclusion in 5.0 Correct. if_xe doesn't support any CardBus devices anyway -- Xircom used entirely different hardware for their CardBus offerings. I believe that some of them do work on -CURRENT, though. As an aside, if_xe is in the GENERIC kernel these days, so there's no need to compile anything to get it to work, assuming you have a supported card. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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