From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 27 22:36:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE95A16A4E0 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:36:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 333B743D45 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:36:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6RMa80E056304; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:36:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6RMa74p031958; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:36:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i6RMa790031957; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:36:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:36:06 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Joshua Colp Message-ID: <20040727223606.GB31898@tao.thought.org> References: <20040727211550.GA31748@tao.thought.org> <200407271852.22486.joshnet@nbnet.nb.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407271852.22486.joshnet@nbnet.nb.ca> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad 600E with Xircom ethernet adaptor X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:36:10 -0000 On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 06:52:22PM +0000, Joshua Colp wrote: > 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. > Hm. The last time I did a // tried a floppy install of 5.2, the istall (on one of my tower servers) hung up. I'll try with the (hopefully new!) 5.2 floppies; maybe they work by now. --what PCMCIA cards do work with 4.8? and the Thinkpad, &c. thanks much! gary PS: the card does say "card bus"... . -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix