Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:09:10 +0100 (CET) From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Activating the Xircom PS-CE2-10 Ethernet PCCARD. Message-ID: <20020129070910.C28B485CC6@thalassa.informatimago.com>
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Hello,
I've seen several questions about problems with Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet
cards.
I've just installed 4.4-R on my DELL Latitude XPi 90ST, and had a
similar problem:
The first time I tried the installation, my Xircom PS-CE2-10 ethernet
card did not activate itself.
Then I restarted the installation procedure and it worked well.
Then I booted FreeBSD, and could not make it work any more: removing
and inserting it, or powering it off the powering it on would have
pccardd correctly recognize and handle it and invoke pccard_ether,
which could configure the xe0 driver without apparent problems, but
the leds on the dongle stayed dead (yes, some Xircom ethernet cards
have adaptator cable going from the PCMCIA card to a "dongle" with two
leds (active & transmiting), either for TP or BNC), and "Host not
reachable" was the only result I could get from ping.
ifconfig reported the interface up.
Well, it wasn't.
Running: ifconfig xe0 down ; ifconfig xe0 up
would resolve my problem, at least the card would connect to the
network and start transmit packets.
Perhaps it's only a problem with pccard_ether which does not
explicitely put the interface up, or with other configuration scripts
which don't put a up keyword in the ifconfig_${interface}
configuration variables, whatever.
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