From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 2 14: 4:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB96237B400; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:04:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A3343E42; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g82L4N154712; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:04:23 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:04:23 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: CardBUS NIC Support w/ IBM ThinkPad 770Z under -CURRENT Message-ID: <20020902105107.X2914-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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