From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Dec 4 20:49:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA12578 for mobile-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 20:49:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA12566 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 20:48:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA22142; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 21:48:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA29324; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 21:48:55 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 21:48:55 -0700 Message-Id: <199712050448.VAA29324@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg Lehey Cc: Nate Williams , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help In-Reply-To: <19971204182901.29141@lemis.com> References: <199712040551.VAA15167@mail.nomadix.com> <199712040625.QAA01864@word.smith.net.au> <199712040804.BAA24286@mt.sri.com> <19971204182901.29141@lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> The > >>> cards that I have tried have been Eagle Technology's NE2000, Fujitsu > >>> MBH10302, 3Com 3C3589C/D. > > > > The 3COM card should *always* work. If it doesn't, then you've got > > setup/hardware problems. > > About this time last year, I spent 3 days trying to get a 3C589C > working on my AcerNote Light. I still can't get it to work with > PCMCIA support. The problem is the bridge in the Acer. Mike Smith > has more details on that. But I'd certainly qualify the statement > that the 3C589 should *always* work. Ok, let me re-phrase. *IF* your pccard controller is supported/working, then the card that *will* work will be the 3C589 series, since they are the most heavily used/tested cards in FreeBSD. If you controller doesn't work or in unsupported all bets are off. Nate