Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 13:53:58 -0400 From: Matthew Hagerty <mhagerty@voyager.net> To: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xircom pccard problem. Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010804134135.02543d10@pop.voyager.net> In-Reply-To: <20010804161402.A2150@localhost> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010802190913.02580708@pop.voyager.net> <5.0.2.1.2.20010801172901.02528ca0@pop.voyager.net> <5.0.2.1.2.20010801172901.02528ca0@pop.voyager.net> <20010802230138.A262@localhost> <5.0.2.1.2.20010802190913.02580708@pop.voyager.net>
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At 04:14 PM 8/4/2001 +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: >On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:11:25PM -0400, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > > > > I hope the page comes back up soon so I can get as much info as > > possible. Unfortunately I just bought the dongles for that NIC at $18.00 > > each...:( > >I hope the machine comes back up soon too :-( As a temporary measure I've put >a mirror of the website up at http://web.ontetel.net.uk/~lungfish/xe_drv/. The >mailing list archives are all there, but some of the other links may not work >as they point to stuff elsewhere on the old site. You're not missing anything >though -- those links were only relevant for versions of the driver before it >went into the main source tree, which happened about a year ago. Well, I'll check it out anyway! ;) > > Do you think it would be possible to reverse engineer the Windows driver? > >Probably, but isn't that illegal where you are? :-) Probably, but I don't care... <grin> Have you seen Xircom's statement about the reference drivers for the older cards? Look here: http://www.xircom.com/cda/page/0,1298,0-0-1_20-475,00.html Besides, I don't think it would be illegal to use their code as a road map to see what needs to be done. I'm going to email them first and see if I can't squeeze something out of them. > > Is there anything I could do to help? I'm pretty good with hardware and > > I'm familiar with assembly and electronics... > >I guess what it needs is for someone familiar with FreeBSD drivers in general, >and the xe driver in particular, and who has the card in question, to sit down >and figure out what's going on. How are your kernel hacking skills? I'm >happy to give whatever help I can, but someone with the card is going to have >to do the grunt work... > > Scott Uh, kernel skills? None, but I've always wanted to dig in (is that suicide?) xe driver familiarity? Does trying to configure a NIC count? :) At least I fit the last criteria, I have a CEM33 and I just paid $18.00 each for the dongles, so I'm committed now!! I suppose we should probably take this to private email, just let me know where I should start and I'll begin the grunt work. Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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