Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 23:12:04 -0400 From: David Jones <dej@inode.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD on notebook w/ Xircom adapter Message-ID: <00100323183802.00372@coup.inode.org>
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I am in the market for a notebook computer. Which will have my favorite OS installed on it. I was in the showroom today with the 4.1-RELEASE KERN and MFSROOT disks to check compatability. Everything seems to work, except for the Ethernet card - a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 (CEM56), which if_xe.c claims to support. Is this driver present in the kernel on the install floppies? It is present in the GENERIC configuration file - is that what's used on the install floppies? After booting into the installation system, I invoked the emergency holographic shell and did "ifconfig -a". No Ethernet devices showed up. Is there anything I have to do during the initial install to enable these devices? My preferred method of installing is to fetch the packages using FTP, then install from a LAN-based NFS or FTP server. Therefore, I need Ethernet to be working on the install-boot floppy. Is there a better compatibility acceptance test? Something I can do reasonably quickly in the showroom, without destroying the demo model (i.e. no trashing the hard disk). I am not about to plunk down CAD$3500 on a nice new notebook unless I am 100% sure that it can run FreeBSD with Ethernet and modem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the messagehelp
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