Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 23:38:53 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "richard childers" <fscked@pacbell.net>, <mark_wright@datacard.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Trouble using my xircom ethernet card Message-ID: <007a01c0af7e$7b015980$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3AB39FAD.7E3FCF78@pacbell.net>
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Yeah, just wait until he figures out that pressing a button makes the CDROM tray go in and out - that's always a good 15 minutes of entertainment for mine. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of richard >childers >Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 9:33 AM >To: mark_wright@datacard.com >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Trouble using my xircom ethernet card > > >Oops, just noticed that the issue was with DHCP ... > >... Sorry, I was being distracted by a 16-month-old whom had just made the >connection between the mouse, and the pointer on the screen ... and had, >furthermore, just grasped, at the same time, the connection >between buttons on >the mouse, and menus on the screen ... > >... Smart kid. <preen> > > >-- richard > > >mark_wright@datacard.com wrote: > >> I'm trying to install RELEASE-4.2 on my laptop, and I'm having >some trouble >> with my Xircom CE2 pcmcia NIC. I don't get any activity lights on my >> dongle, and it can't find my DHCP servers when I try to do an >FTP install. >> If I go to virtual terminal 2, I see the following: >> >> DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success) >> Code 136 not found >> Code 136 not found >> code unknown ignored >> Code 137 not found >> Code 137 not found >> code unknown ignored >> xe0 at port 0x240-0x247 iomem 0xd0000-0xd0FFF irq 7 slot 1 on pccard1 >> xe0: Xircom CE2, bonding version 0x40 >> xe0: Ethernet address 00:80:c7:7b:97:8f >> /etc/pccard_ether: not found >> DEBUG: Add mapping for /dev/cuaa0 to sl0 >> >> When I do my FTP install, the install program sees my xe0. I select it, >> don't select ipv6, do select DHCP. Then it just hangs fo a while before >> giving up on DHCP. No lights go on on the network dongle. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Mark Wright >> mwright@pro-ns.net >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- >Richard A. Childers >Senor UNIX Administrator >fscked@pacbell.net (email) >415.664.6291 (voice/msgs) > ># Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. ># PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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