Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:46:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: pkorsten@xs4all.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xircom CE3B-100BTX PCMCIA Ethernet Card Message-ID: <199801152146.OAA25060@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199801130708.IAA09024@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Jan 13, 98 08:08:46 am
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> > I have a laptop with a Xircom CE3B-100BTX PCMCIA Ethernet Card. Does anybody > > know whether there are (attempts to) drivers for either FreeBSD, other BSD's > > or perhaps Linux? And perhaps some leads to port such a driver? > > AFAIK Xircom is just as bad as Diamond used to be: they won't give you > programming info for their products, or maybe only under NDA. However, looking at the PAO drivers put out by the FreeBSD Nomads for PCMCIA cards, it's pretty apparent that they are starting to use more standard chipsets (some of the PCMCIA Xircom adapters work with PAO, though they are officially frowned upon for their policy). The best answer for a PCI device is to identify the chipset, identify an existing driver for PCI cards with the chipset (if they didn't use a standard one, you may be in trouble), plug it in, get the PCI ID with "no driver assigned", and enter it into the vendor/ID table for the PCI device. If they didn't use a standard chipset, all is not lost: get another card with the Windows/Novell drivers, and send the card and driver disk to a German or other EU member with a copy of "Sourcer" from V Communications, Inc., and have them reverse engineer the interface for you (which they can do legally). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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