Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:13:31 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: wrong Xircom card?? Message-ID: <20040729001331.GA66469@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <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> <20040728211421.GA66205@tao.thought.org>
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:14:21PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 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.
> > >
[ ... ]
> > 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.
> >
>
[ ... ]
> 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.
>
Latest discoveries are that with the Xircom Ethernet II
well seated, upon reboot, the kernel panics when it sees
the card. It's a new card, so guessing it is a driver problem.
Time to look for a new card.
Inthe KERNEL config files does anybody have any experience with:
ex # Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and Pro/10+
ep # Etherlink III based cards
fe # Fujitsu MB8696x based cards
ie # EtherExpress 8/16, 3C507, StarLAN 10
lnc # NE2100, NE32-VL Lance Ethernet cards
or am I looking in the wrong place?
gary
Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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