From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 28 21:15:49 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 B28BA16A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:15:49 +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 038D843D45 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:15:49 +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 i6SLEO0E058920; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:14:25 -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 i6SLEMYn066247; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i6SLELll066246; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:14:21 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Scott Mitchell Message-ID: <20040728211421.GA66205@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> <20040728173431.GB65532@tao.thought.org> <20040728205404.GA466@tuatara.fishballoon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040728205404.GA466@tuatara.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 21:15:49 -0000 On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:54:04PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 05:59:19PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > 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 > > Yeah, that's a CardBus card that will only work with 5.x - there's no > CardBus support whatsoever in 4.x. > > You seem to be getting some good pointers in another thread to PCMCIA > adapters that should work with your machine. If you can find them, the > Xircom CE3 or CEM56 / REM56 work pretty well. Most other Xircom cards > don't work well on 4.x, and this is unlikely to be fixed, at least not by > me. > Nor me! (I am going towrite keyboard-click code so that I miss fewer keystrokes, but as for Real-Drivers{TM}. I'll pass.) So new delevopments that might be helpful to others on-list and as green as I am to laptops:: the 5.2.1R CDROM works-- it boots fully--but iff the Xircom card is missing. If this is not how things should work, I'd like to hear. On the 4.8 floppies was some blurb hat the PCMCIA cards were not hot-swappable... . There was some complaint (along with the trap/panic) about "Cardbus" along with an address that I could not copy. But if the Xircom card isn't broken, I should be able to configure it in /etc/rc.conf later. I didn't see any PCMCIA menus in /stand/sysinstall. Nutshell: 5.2 is being installed thanks everybody, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix