Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:31:35 -0400 From: Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu> To: vanepp@sfu.ca Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCMCIA Ethernet cards? (Xircom Cardbus, plus misc. questions) Message-ID: <39229F37.6E4ED713@eng.ufl.edu>
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> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:52:31 -0700 (PDT) > From: Peter Van Epp <vanepp@sfu.ca> > Subject: PCMCIA Ethernet cards? > > I actually have a number of questions/comments all on the latest > Release 4.0: > > 1) Am I being blind? I can't find any indication of PCMCIA Ethernet drivers > for any card and in particular the Xircom Cardbus 10/100 card (in my case > a possibly custom one from Network General in my sniffer, although Win98 > finds and uses it fine) in the kernel or LINT config file and the generic > kernel on the boot floppies doesn't find it when booted on the laptop that > it is in. I'm hoping I'm just being blind and there is a driver around > somewhere that I haven't found ... I don't know the details, but some Xircom cards (combo modem/ether cards, I think) have problems - and Xircom doesn't seem eager to provide enough documentation to produce reliable drivers. This may or may not be related to your problem. If you search the list archives at www.freebsd.org you should be able to get more info. And (oh, yeah) cardbus support is still rather minimal. You will want to read up on that, also. [...] > 3) sysinstall will sometimes refuse to write a legal size partition (the same > size as it will write if "auto" is used) putting up the "partition to big?" > error message. I can reproduce it but haven't had time to look at the code > to see whats wrong yet. I doubt that I'm much help here, either, but I vaguely recall having this problem with an earlier release. I think it acted like a "fence post" (off by one) error. You couldn't manually enter a partition size that was the maximum available, you had to type in a size that was one sector smaller. I may be remembering wrong. [...] > 5) The built in openssh doesn't work when enabled in /etc/rc.conf. I only > sometimes get the message "in the kernel" when I build it in ports (that > might be an issue of "are you in the US" or not) the client complains > about RSA decryption failing when being connected to from an earlier 4.0 > release machine (where openssl was built from the ports collection). The CD-ROM and the version distributed from U.S. servers do not include RSA code because of patent issues (which, fortunately, will expire this September). My recollection is that if you use the client to connect to an SSH server, it will give you an error message explaining what to do, although you seem to be saying it doesn't. The solution in the U.S. is to install the RSAREF port (/usr/ports/security/rsaref). Outside the U.S. you probably want to go to the international server and install the internation rsa port, which provides better performance, but I don't remember its name. I'm sure a search of the mail archive for something like "rsa 2000" will turn up the answer (the 2000 limits your results to postings from this year). When you install an RSA library, you should first edit /etc/make.conf and make sure the USA_RESIDENT line is set appropriately. I think that for most purposes, Canada counts as "YES" (except perhaps this one!). > Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support > Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada I hope that helped. If you don't get useful answers to all of your questions, try posting them individually with subject lines that relate to the questions. A lot of users of this list just read the subject lines to look for questions they can help with. Good luck. -- Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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