Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 20:04:27 +0100 From: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com> To: "Scott Mitchell" <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100 CardBus II Message-ID: <001401c42faf$21131ee0$f700000a@ape> References: <CD1C1AC62C4DA944914E36E7B3DD904313DB2A@sestosrv004p.ad.octapharma.se> <005d01c42eae$29a51b50$f700000a@ape> <20040501171824.GA474@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Mitchell" <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: "Markie" <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com> Cc: <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 6:18 PM Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100 CardBus II | On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:25:01PM +0100, Markie wrote: | > | > The cards I am looking at are also 32 bit (the dongle ones). I was just | > wondering if I will get any kind of major performance loss using 16 bit | > cards. I can only find a Realport1? card (just says realport) and they're | > 16 bit... and so is this FA410 card if I was to get a dongle for it | > instead. | | Performance of 100Mbps Ethernet with 16-bit cards pretty much sucks. I thought as much :o) I won the Intel card on ebay yesterday. Not sure if I got any kind of deal on it for £7, they can probably be picked up cheap now I imagine but I couldn't find anywhere in the UK. | They'll attach to a 100Mbps network just fine, but the amount of data | you'll be able to put through them will be much, much less, and probably | consume a lot of CPU cycles with it. If you're not doing anything | network-intensive, or only connecting to 10Mbps networks, this might not | matter to you. Well it's all 100Mb here at home. I would much rather have good 100Mb support even if I aint on a 100Mb network :o) | | However, if your laptop has CardBus slots and you're running FreeBSD 5 (no | CardBus support in 4.x), you'll probably be a lot happier with a 32-bit | card. Well I am hoping to get 5.x installed. It probes some cardbus thing (cbb0 or something), so I imagine it has although really other than that I have no idea. I can get it running via FreeSBIE 1.0 (5.2.1-R) in safe mode, but I can't seem to run a proper FreeBSD installer release thing (even in safe mode). I am now trying to make a -CURRENT install CD with an AGP patch I appear to need.. that might help things out a bit, as the installer apparently wants agp.ko? loaded I think, which causes it to panic... I am pretty sure it's trying to load some module anyway... and without this ali_agp.c patch loading any module will panic the machine :o) I will let you know how it goes, whenever my hard disk arrives, and maybe this patch I found could be added to the tree or something. Looking at the code it probably should be anyway but then I am no uber god coder person :o) Maybe one day... Oh, when it's running it seems to work alright. Sound works straight off with FreeSBIE and the touchpad works alright :o) closing the lid puts it into some kind of suspend that I can't seem to get out of though :o( It's half way there atleast :o) | | Scott Thanks! Markie | | -- | =========================================================================== | Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels | Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" | scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon
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