From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 28 22: 6:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFED1543E for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:06:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from J_Shevland@Turnaround.com.au) Received: from Turnaround.com.au (dhcp68.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.68]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA03681; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:12:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from J_Shevland@Turnaround.com.au) Message-ID: <36FE6FA5.80C565F2@Turnaround.com.au> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 04:06:29 +1000 From: Joe Shevland Organization: Turnaround Solutions Pty. Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Douglas K. Rand" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xircom 10/100 + 56kbps PCMCIA cards References: <36FE1701.DB33F3BB@Turnaround.com.au> <14078.56280.527915.856138@deneb.meridian-enviro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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