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Date:      Sun, 6 Feb 2000 11:42:17 +0000
From:      Scott Mitchell <s.mitchell@computer.org>
To:        cjclark@home.com, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Install on DELL Latitude and Xircom CreditCard Ethernet
Message-ID:  <20000206114217.12519@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000205232730.B14610@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from Crist J. Clark on Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 11:27:30PM -0500
References:  <200002052251.OAA12829@ptavv.es.net> <200002060416.VAA12619@harmony.village.org> <20000205232730.B14610@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 11:27:30PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 09:16:07PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message <200002052251.OAA12829@ptavv.es.net> "Kevin Oberman" writes:
> > : Unfortunately the generic kernel is not built with support for the
> > : Xircom cards. This is mostly because of conflicts with other drivers,
> > 
> > No.  It isn't built with default because it doesn't work.
> 
> Whoa!!! Hold on. Xircom CreditCard Ethernet IIps are said to be
> supported. From
> http://home.jp.FreeBSD.org/~toshi/PAO3/SUPPORTED.CARDS,

I dunno about PAO, but the IIps is only semi-supported on my stock xe
driver (which comes with 3.3 and 3.4; you shouldn't need PAO to use it).
For 'semi-supported' read "it might work, it might not, we haven't worked
out why yet".  Probably shouldn't mention this now, but you'd have been
better off with a Xircom CE3 card -- not only will it connect to 100Mbit
networks, but they generally work out of the box with the xe driver.

Definitely worth joining the freebsd-xircom list while you get this sorted
out.

	Scott
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