From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 26 04:34:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA26243 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA26226 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:33:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) Received: from brunos-sun.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.185]; by hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5/S-4.0) with SMTP; id MAA16304; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:33:34 GMT Received: locally by brunos-sun (SMI-8.6/QMW-client-3.2b); poster "scott"; id MAA02905; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:31:06 GMT Message-ID: <19990126123106.G2114@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:31:06 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Doug , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XIRCOM References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 10:32:59PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 10:32:59PM -0500, Doug wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering if anyone knows if the XIRCOM PCMCIA Card CEM28 (10mbit > ethernet + 28.8 modem) is supported by FreeBSD. Any answers would be > helpful. > > > Thanks > Doug My driver for this and various other Xircom cards was just released to testers yesterday -- I've attached the announcement below. Please let me know if you'd like to join the testers group. Note that as far as I know you won't be able to use the modem and Ethernet parts of your card simultaneously -- this is a limitation in the current FreeBSD PC-card framework (someone please correct me if I'm wrong there). It's on my list of things to maybe look at once this driver is done. Cheers, Scott The announcement: >I'm pleased to announce the first test release of my FreeBSD driver for >Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet cards. Those of you receiving this mail directly >rather than through -mobile have already expressed interest in testing and >debugging the driver -- many thanks in advance! Please let me know if you >want to be added/removed to/from the mailing list. > >The driver can be obtained from the URL: >http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~scott/xe-drv/xe-drv.tar.gz > >This archive contains the two source files (if_xe.c and if_xereg.h) and a >very brief set of installation instructions. I'm assuming that people are >familiar with the mechanics of building new kernels and configuring PCMCIA >cards under FreeBSD. Let me know if you need any help. > >The driver is only known to run under 3.0-RELEASE, but may well compile on >other versions -- I don't know. It aims to support the following cards: >CE2, CEM28, CEM33, CE3 and CEM56, and certain Intel and Compaq cards using >the Xircom hardware. > >All the usual disclaimers apply: this code may cause your machine to >sprout wings and fly out of your office window; you use it at your own >risk. It (more or less) works for me on my particular setup, but YMMV. > >I won't have time to do much work on the code before Wednesday (thesis >writing takes priority :), so that should give you all time to try it out >and let me know what does (or more likely doesn't) work. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message