Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:52:41 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C589E or Xircom Realport 10BT? Message-ID: <200001101952.MAA11877@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:29:04 %2B0100." <3879B470.2B32C619@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <3879B470.2B32C619@we.lc.ehu.es>
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In message <3879B470.2B32C619@we.lc.ehu.es> "Jose M. Alcaide" writes: : I am looking for an Ethernet (10Mbps) PCMCIA card for my new laptop, : a Dell Inspiron 3700. The models easier to find at local stores are the : 3COMs and the Xircoms, and I am not sure of which of them works better : with FreeBSD (3.4-RELEASE, no PAO). Both of these work equally well with 3.4, as far as I know. : I like the Xircom RE-10BT because it has a true RJ45 connector : integrated (it is a type-III card), but I don't know anything about the : quality of the "xe" driver (and I know that it is broken under -CURRENT). Yes. Although it is much closer to working now than it was a little while ago. : OTOH, I am very confused about the many variants of the 3c589. The local : stores only offer the 3COM Megahertz 3CXE589ET, and I don't know whether : this specific model works fine with the "ep" driver. I've had reports that it does, but have none in my hot little hands to verify it for sure. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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