From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 28 17:35:17 2004 Return-Path: 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 C554216A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:35:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4831843D5C for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:35:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6SHYY0E058432; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:34:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6SHYXfV065683; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:34:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i6SHYWAV065682; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:34:31 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Scott Mitchell Message-ID: <20040728173431.GB65532@tao.thought.org> References: <59FD5336D1B1FA40AF6DDD241D8DBAC68C10C7@amcw2ms517.amc.ds.af.mil> <20040726230518.GA97334@tao.thought.org> <20040727005551.GA97598@tao.thought.org> <20040728165918.GA82093@llama.fishballoon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040728165918.GA82093@llama.fishballoon.org> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD Mailing List cc: "Hauan, David" Subject: Re: wrong Xircom card?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:35:17 -0000 On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 05:59:19PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 05:55:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > To reply to my last post: no joy. I tried no kernel config, > > just selected irq3 and the Default card addr of 0x0000. > > The installation floppies recognized the card and said it > > was initializing things, but same results: I would up > > with only slip and ppp choices. > > > > I tried the full-screen intall option next. Xircon ("xe") > > was't among the drivers in the Network list. Is there a > > way of installing the xe driver from floppy? > > What exact Xircom card is this? The xe driver only knows about the older > Xircom PCMCIA cards. Some of their CardBus adapters are (I believe) > handled by the dc driver. > I have the Xircom Ethernet II 10/100 CBE2-100 (IIRC); someone on the -mobile list said that only 5.X recognizes this card. Both a floppy install of 5.2.1 and a CDROM 5.2.1 recognize the Cardbus; but both poison almost immediately. --So, for now, I'm sticking with 4.8 and looking for a PCMCIA card that works with 4.8. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix