From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 11 18:52:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD37A16A4CE for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:52:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCFF43D2F for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:52:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cmello@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z35so526683rne for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:52:09 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=g5kxh7iSf7PApLwmyvgGwI3hrszLd5dLjDmdyl0VyotD3bShuymUrjZ/osc2FlOecOMCneFXL0pvcKyXqa2BoLJoGWWONd0gcVqBHOS2h7+8JYk8wn3JkpsbGNIOZaYD/QFDWCGogNShmHwGTeT3lPDz5bONxK5N7Yn1SX11gX8= Received: by 10.38.70.14 with SMTP id s14mr1817430rna; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:52:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.15.2 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:52:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:52:09 -0200 From: Cesar Mello To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041211182426.GA533@tuatara.fishballoon.org> Subject: Re: Xircom Realport ethernet on FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Cesar Mello List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:52:11 -0000 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