Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:15:44 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: Richard Shaw <Richard.Shaw@mondus.com>, Freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI Wavelan cards under 4.4 Message-ID: <20020116111544.B14632@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <3C458F36.659269C5@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:33:26AM -0500 References: <851336E23970B348A23A1A46DB20D64F0F99E9@ukmail02.internal.mondus.com> <3C458F36.659269C5@mitre.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:33:26AM -0500, Jason Andresen wrote: > Richard Shaw wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm attempting to get a 3com wavelan 3crwe777a PCI card working > > under 4.4 Release. I've trawled for posts on this and have > > found plenty mentioning how easy it was to get the ISA version > > working, but have had no solid confirmations that the PCI one will > > work. There have been mumblings of incompatibilities with some > > motherboards, talk of support coming soon but nothing definite. Has > > anyone set one up, or managed to get one working ? > > I was under the impression the PCI versions won't work until FreeBSD 5 > because the PCI version effectivly requires newcard. The "PCI" card > here is really just a PCCARD controller on an PCI card that you > plug an off-the-shelf Wavelan/Orinoco card into. The change to PCCard prior to 4.4 were specificaly to correct this problem. The PCI card in this case appears to NOT be a generic CardBus bridge like the Lucent adaptors though both are know to work. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8RdFgXY6L6fI4GtQRAv1LAJ4mBedCfNsCEoshiQZrhNKfokbObQCfSQ7Y Q11dZuvWpHVHC09ix6DhfiA= =j2r9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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