Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:04:23 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG, <FreeBSD-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: CardBUS NIC Support w/ IBM ThinkPad 770Z under -CURRENT Message-ID: <20020902105107.X2914-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
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Greetings everyone: I decided to pull the trigger and try to run FreeBSD on my IBM ThinkPad 770Z with a 3COM 3CXFEM656C 10/100 NIC + 56k modem Cardbus combo. Originally I tried 4.6.2-RELEASE but Cardbus isn't support so I tried both a NetGear FA411 10/100 PCMCIA and the LinkSys PCM100 Etherfast 10/100 PCMCIA. Both worked under the ed1 driver. When I was testing speeds to/from my desktop which is on a Intel Pro100+ Management (fxp0), the LinkSys was doing 1080Kbytes/sec or 8.64Mbps but the NetGear started at 300Kbytes/sec or 2.4Mbps and then the speed went down to 80Kbytes/sec or 640Kbps and stayed there. I was looking at the -CURRENT srctree and noticed that NEWCARD has been merged into GENERIC so from current.FreeBSD.ORG, I got the 08182002 ISO Snapshot and attempted to use the 3Com 3CXFEM656C on it, -current recognized the card and assigned it as xl0 on irq 11. As soon as the IP is assigned to it with: ifconfig xl0 inet 209.204.138.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 It keeps sending xl0: watchdog timeout repeatively to the console. When I tried the LinkSys and the NetGear PCMCIA 16bit cards, it says card functions not found. Anyone have any ideas what's wrong or what other -current snapshot version should I be using? Is it just the 3Com is a bad card to use or is there another cardbus NIC that works well? Thanks! Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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