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Subject: Re: PCMCIA NIC
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At 07:55 AM 9/11/2003, you wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:21:18PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote:
> > I have FreeBSD installed on a laptop, but I am having trouble with
> > setting up networking.
> >
> > ifconfig does not show the PCMCIA NIC (3Com 10/100, pretty standard and
> > works under Linux, so I expect it's supported), and after some looking I
> > think that I have the necessary kernel parameters built, but I'm definitely
> > missing something.
> > --
> >
> > yours,
> >
> > William

FWIW, on my Thinkpad 600X w/ Linksys pcmcia, I had to use OLDCARD to 
configure a kernel that would use the card. I may be missing the point, but 
it might be worthy to note it also.