Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:52:22 +0000 From: Joshua Colp <joshnet@nbnet.nb.ca> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad 600E with Xircom ethernet adaptor Message-ID: <200407271852.22486.joshnet@nbnet.nb.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040727211550.GA31748@tao.thought.org> References: <20040727211550.GA31748@tao.thought.org>
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Hello, Gary FreeBSD 4 doesn't support cardbus and your Xircom card probably uses it. Thus, you'll have to install FreeBSD 5 if you want to use it. (I had the same problem with my 3Com NIC). - Joshua Colp. On July 27, 2004 09:15 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > Recently I got a 366MHz Thinkpad 600E. It came without > a network card so I bought a Xircom Ethernet II 10/100 CBE2-100. > I put the card in the bottom, slot, plugged the IBM > USB-to-CAT5 cable with the adaptor to my CAT5 cable. Into > my switch, and from 4.8 floppies tried to do do a network > install. > > The thing is that /stand/sysinstall only gives me two options: > SLIP and PPP. This I don't have. I got the network screen > and entered my gateway and my DNS server (NS1.THOUGHT.ORG); > still, no-joy. I toggled DCHP from hte options list, I > chose the Default address range (0x0000) and irq 3. > > What am I doing wrong? Wrong card? ... > > thanks in advance, > > gary
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