Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:53:40 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Peter J Jones <p@dancris.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Toshiba Tecra 8100 and Xircom CreditCard 10/100 Message-ID: <200002231653.IAA30176@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:45:10 MST." <38B32D96.6202DA5F@dancris.com>
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Peter, You don't say exactly which Xircom card you are using. If it's a RealPort-1 card (RE-100), it should work fine with 3.4. I have not had any problems with mine since I figured out the incantations for the kernel and the pccard.conf file. NOTE: This is not PAO. It's standard 3.4-Release. In the kernel configuration, uncomment the line for xe0 and comment out the zp0 and ze0 lines. Then go to pccard.conf and set a hard IRQ for the card. 10 seems to usually work, but for some systems 9 and 11 might be magic. If you system can boot windows, I would suggest doing so, checking the IRQ used, and using the same one in FreeBSD. Don't specify the IRQ to the kernel, but put in the pccard.conf. The lines in pccard.conf.sample are fine except for the '?' that should be replaced with the desired IRQ value. Rebuild the kernel and reboot. Also, subscribe to the xircom-specific mailing list <xircom-freebsd@lovett.com> and/or see the Xircom-FreeBSD web pages at http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~scott/xe_drv/. Note that you don't need to download the driver if you are running 3.4 as it is now in the distribution. Forcing the IRQ seems to fix more problems with this card than anything else. Also, you probably don't want to run CURRENT or to install 4.0 when it's released in a couple of weeks as the driver is known not to work with 4.0. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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