Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:01:54 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>, Jason Friedland <jfriedland@ozemail.com.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM TP 600E - Xircom Cardbus Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030921130034.02ca1f08@gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030921093842.GA41350@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <3F6D264A.8000005@ozemail.com.au> <3F6D264A.8000005@ozemail.com.au>
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At 10:38 21/9/03, Scott Mitchell wrote: >On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:17:14PM +1000, Jason Friedland wrote: > > Hi there > > > > I'm after a few pointers for installing FreeBSD 5.1 on a TP 600E. I have > > installed it on this machine previously but couldn't get my Xircom > > CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + 56K Modem card working so threw the towel in. > > > > I have Slackware 9 on it right now and it works flawlessly after a bit > > of tweaking (well, all the devices such as the Xircom, sound, DVD work) > > but really want to get 5.1 going. > > > > After googling around for FreeBSD on a 600E I found an article > > (focussing on 4.7) which suggested I recompile the kernel in order to > > get the Xircom working. I did this, rebooted and still no ethernet. > > > > I know this is a bit vague but if anyone has some tips on how to get > > this card going I'd be most grateful. > > > > Jason Friedland > > (FreeBSD noob) > >As Doug says in his reply, CardBus is only supported on FreeBSD 5.x, so >you're definitely SOL getting this card to work on 4.7. > >Could you switch back to the 5.1 GENERIC kernel and post the contents of >your /etc/rc.conf, /var/log/dmesg.boot and any messages that show up on the >console when you insert the card? > >AFAIK this card is supported, but there may well be some kernel or other >config tweaking required to get the 600E to recognise it. Any other 600E >owners with working pccard slots out there know the right magic words? One thing to watch with the 600E is that early BIOSs don't support ACPI - for instance BIOS upgrade with ACPI is required to run Win2k. I have no idea whether this is relevant to the current case. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 989 4254
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