From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 14:41:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11040 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:41:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10844 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:39:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA10115; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:39:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: David Edwards cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3COM 3c589D In-Reply-To: <355CB80B.41C67EA6@portanc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 May 1998, David Edwards wrote: > How soon will the 3Com 3c589D pcmcia network card be supported > for FreeBSD? Works fine in my old 486 but no go in my new P166. > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.6 on a Toshiba 435CDS Laptop. > The 3c589D pcmcia card seems to be recognized, but > I am not able to ping other hosts on the network. Toshibas are infamous for having nonstandard PCCARD controllers. If it supports CardBus then you're probably out of luck since these new controllers aren't backwards compatible. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message