Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:36:14 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Jonathan Belson" <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] FreeBSD 4.0 and Xircom ethernet cards? Message-ID: <200007031936.e63JaEn10033@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jul 2000 00:07:37 BST." <000501bfe3b1$26522f20$03fea8c0@local>
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> From: "Jonathan Belson" <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> > Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 00:07:37 +0100 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hiya > > > Has anyone managed to get Scott Mitchell's Xircom driver to work under > 4.0-RELEASE? > I tried the latest archive from his website (1.20 dated last year some time) > but it wouldn't > compile - it worked nicely under 3.4 though. The problem is not just the driver, but the underlying structures for PCCARD and driver support which changed with V4.0. The Xircom (Dingo) driver does not and will not work in 4.0-Release. It has worked in 4.0-Stable for about a month or two due to modifications to both the driver and to other system components. If you can't cvsup to STABLE, you will probably have to wait two weeks until 4.1-Release is available and install that. (Jordan had posted that July 15 is the target date for 4.1 and I am seeing MFCs starting to hit as code is moved from CURRENT prior to STABLE rot release, so it should be close to on time.) FWIW, my Xircom has run just fine since the modifications to STABLE, but it puts out TONS of debug messages that drove me nuts, so I edited if_xe.c to $undef XE_DEBUG after the line where it is defined as #define XE_DEBUG 2 in /sys/dev/xe/if_xe.c. That quiets it down to where I'd like it to be, but you might want to wait to do this until you know it's running correctly. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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