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Date:      Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:37:41 -0500
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Scott Mitchell <s.mitchell@computer.org>
Cc:        cjclark@home.com, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Install on DELL Latitude and Xircom CreditCard Ethernet
Message-ID:  <20000207163740.A58810@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000206114217.12519@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk>; from s.mitchell@computer.org on Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 11:42:17AM %2B0000
References:  <200002052251.OAA12829@ptavv.es.net> <200002060416.VAA12619@harmony.village.org> <20000205232730.B14610@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <20000206114217.12519@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk>

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On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 11:42:17AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 11:27:30PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 09:16:07PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > In message <200002052251.OAA12829@ptavv.es.net> "Kevin Oberman" writes:
> > > : Unfortunately the generic kernel is not built with support for the
> > > : Xircom cards. This is mostly because of conflicts with other drivers,
> > > 
> > > No.  It isn't built with default because it doesn't work.
> > 
> > Whoa!!! Hold on. Xircom CreditCard Ethernet IIps are said to be
> > supported. From
> > http://home.jp.FreeBSD.org/~toshi/PAO3/SUPPORTED.CARDS,
> 
> I dunno about PAO, but the IIps is only semi-supported on my stock xe
> driver (which comes with 3.3 and 3.4; you shouldn't need PAO to use it).
> For 'semi-supported' read "it might work, it might not, we haven't worked
> out why yet".  Probably shouldn't mention this now, but you'd have been
> better off with a Xircom CE3 card -- not only will it connect to 100Mbit
> networks, but they generally work out of the box with the xe driver.

I wanted to be able to do 10BaseT (RJ-45) or 10Base2 (BNC). I don't
think I can do that with the CE3.

But I did have the choice of getting a Linksys card... but I thought
that the Xircom would be a better choice than a NE2000-clone. :( Guess
that was a bad call.

> Definitely worth joining the freebsd-xircom list while you get this sorted
> out.

Will do.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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