From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 26 5: 5:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 248D537B402 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 05:05:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.154.186]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020126130542.ECZX8848.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:05:42 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0QD5en33391; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:05:40 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0QD57R05247; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:05:07 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:05:06 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Mark Rowlands Cc: jmkelly@ieee.org, John Kelly , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new install, trying to get Xircom PC card to work Message-ID: <20020126130506.A296@localhost> References: <3C521E87.4004D3C8@uclink.berkeley.edu> <20020126101155.2E88637B417@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020126101155.2E88637B417@hub.freebsd.org>; from fuc952d@tninet.se on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:11:51AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-RC i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: > On Saturday 26 January 2002 4:12 am, John Kelly wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've got FreeBSD 4.4-release running on a Dell Latitude laptop with a > > Xircom RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100) PC card > > in it, and I can't figure out how to get the card to wake up. Card > > services seems to be running okay, it sees that a card has been > > inserted, but the system comes up with no Ethernet device. > > > > I found the source for the right driver, xe, but when I try to compile > > xe.c I get an error: "if_xe.c:138: card_if.h: No such file or > > directory." > > > > Beyond that, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to integrate the xe > > driver with the kernel even if I could manage to compile it. I've tried > > RTFMing, but haven't seemed to find the right page yet. All help will be > > appreciated. > > > > unless I am mistaken, support for cardbus is not yet incorporated in 4.x, it > is due for inclusion in 5.0 Correct. if_xe doesn't support any CardBus devices anyway -- Xircom used entirely different hardware for their CardBus offerings. I believe that some of them do work on -CURRENT, though. As an aside, if_xe is in the GENERIC kernel these days, so there's no need to compile anything to get it to work, assuming you have a supported card. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message