Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:52:09 -0200 From: Cesar Mello <cmello@gmail.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xircom Realport ethernet on FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <c0ee48c5041211105270578d78@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c0ee48c5041211105018e6d536@mail.gmail.com> References: <c0ee48c504121106577ee07535@mail.gmail.com> <20041211182426.GA533@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <c0ee48c5041211105018e6d536@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Scott, Thank you guys a lot for the replies! > I don't know the 300CT - is this an older model with 16-bit PCMCIA (ie. not > CardBus) slots? I think so, because this is an old machine (Pentium 133 with 32 MB of RAM) I bought just to have some "mobile" processing power. :-) > If so, it might not work with the NEWCARD drivers that are > the default in 5.3. The OLDCARD framework is still supported but not in > the GENERIC kernel - you will need to build a new kernel from the OLDCARD > config file (/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/OLDCARD). That's good news. I am at work now, so I'll build a kernel with OLDCARD when I get home. > The RealPort card itself is definitely supported by the xe driver, so if we > can get your system to recognise the card it should work just fine. > Could you post a copy of /var/run/dmesg.boot from your machine to the list? > We can check if there are any PCCARD drivers being loaded and whether it's > worthwhile trying the OLDCARD kernel. I had checked the kernel messeges and found nothing with "pccard", so I guess that's the problem. To be honest, some months ago when I bought this machine, I tried FreeBSD 5.2.1 and could get the pccard driver working after building a custom kernel, but the network didn't start up anyway. So as I didn't have much time, I decided to wait for FreeBSD 5.3 and try Gentoo for a while (which worked nice but I'm not a big fan of GPL :-). Thank you a lot! Best regards, Cesar
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