From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Sep 18 4:30:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2AB014E54 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 04:30:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from ragnet.demon.co.uk ([158.152.46.40]) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11SIhG-000KdC-0B; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:30:28 +0000 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11SGFs-000GYl-00; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:54:00 +0100 Content-Length: 1043 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:53:59 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay To: Bill Fumerola Subject: Re: Combo 100Base-T Ethernet/10 BaseT Ethernet/Modem/ISDN cards Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-xircom@lovett.com Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 17-Sep-99 Bill Fumerola wrote: > > I have a RealPort 10/100+modem56 lying around here, but only a -CURRENT > laptop. > > Am I to assume that the modem doesn't have a chance of working? Will > the 10/100 (which is cardbus, which I thought didn't work either) work? Apart from CardBus stuff which I am not sure if it is supported, the modem will work fine as a standard PC-Card modem. The Ethernet stuff needs Scott's xe driver. There is a bug with reinsertion of the ether card not DTRT somewhere. It seems that the silicon revision is being detected incorrectly so unless Xircom have morphing ICs we've got some sort of bug that gets the card confused. > Sorry if these are FAQs, I just recently got into this laptop game. Same here Bill! Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message