From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 19:42:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C69737B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:42:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A65D43E6E for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:42:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from rogers.com ([24.101.253.2]) by fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (InterMail vM.5.01.05.06 201-253-122-126-106-20020509) with ESMTP id <20021030034220.FKBE4829.fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@rogers.com>; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:42:20 -0500 Message-ID: <3DBF551F.7040304@rogers.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:42:23 -0500 From: Mike Jeays Organization: Statistics Canada User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020607 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEC Versa LX and 3COM Megahertz References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.101.253.2] using ID at Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:42:20 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Mike Jeays wrote: > > >>I have a NEC Versa LX (Pentium 200), with a 3Com Megahertz >>combined Ethernet and modem PCMCIA card (3CCFEM556 B). >> >>The Ethernet part works fine under a well-known proprietary >>OS, but FreeBSD 4.7 refuses to see it on boot-up. I have >>fiddled with the BIOS options, but have had no success. >> >>Any suggestions, including alternative, inexpensive PCMCIA >>cards that are known to work? > > > That card is listed in /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, so it's been known to > work. Do you have > > pccard_enable="YES" > > in /etc/rc.conf? You may also need to limit which interrupts are > available by creating a /etc/pccard.conf file which lists them. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA > > Thanks very much - that did the trick perfectly. There was no need to create pccard.conf. What is more, the card runs at 100 Mbits/sec, whereas W2K can only manage 10. One up for FreeBSD yet again! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message