Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 04:06:29 +1000 From: Joe Shevland <J_Shevland@Turnaround.com.au> To: "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xircom 10/100 + 56kbps PCMCIA cards Message-ID: <36FE6FA5.80C565F2@Turnaround.com.au> References: <36FE1701.DB33F3BB@Turnaround.com.au> <14078.56280.527915.856138@deneb.meridian-enviro.com>
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Thanks for all those that replied, I'm going to try and get it fired up under 3.1-STABLE on the ol' Dell Inspiron 7k. I'll shoot through a post about how it goes... Cheers, Joe. "Douglas K. Rand" wrote: > Joe> I noticed a few Linux drivers, but my question was whether anyone > Joe> has successfully had a card like this working (in a laptop, this > Joe> ones a Dell Inspiron 7000) under FreeBSD? > > Scott Mitchell <scott@freebsd-uk.eu.org> has been spear heading a port > of the Linux Xircom driver to FreeBSD in the last few months. You can > download the driver from http://www.freebsd-uk.eu.org/~scott/xe_drv > and easily install it in your kernel. There is a mailing list for the > project at freebsd-xircom@lovett.com. > > The driver is coming along. But there is a problem with all UNIXes > that can only use one part of a multifunction card at a time, so if > you have one of the Ethernet/modem cards, you can use either the modem > or the Ethernet part, but not both. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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