From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 11:34:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from general1.consumersedge.com (mail.personalogic.com [208.213.67.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351B115120 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dshanes@personalogic.com) Received: from SHANES1 by general1.consumersedge.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1460.8) id GTPS8B8W; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:31:56 -0800 Message-ID: <017301be6a63$cb29e6a0$1d43a8c0@shanes1.personalogic.com> From: "David Shanes" To: Subject: Fw: 3C574-TX Fast Elink PC Card NIC - FOLLOWUP Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:34:05 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, I found out that this is a "Card Bus" NIC. That sounds like it might be the NIC equivalent of a WinModem... The "works with" section of the box listed several os's, none of them were a flavor of UNIX. I guess that I am SOL and need to get a real NIC. Am I right? Thanks, David -----Original Message----- From: Stan Brown To: David Shanes Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 7:19 AM Subject: Re: 3COM 3CXM556 56k PC Card Modem & 3C574-TX Fast Elink PC Card NIC >> >>I got a new laptop with t he above two cards. Are they supported? With what >>drivers? >> >>I tried to install 3.1-R on Friday over FTP and it apparently did not see my >>network card because one of my choices was not to install via the network >>card. >> >>PPP was an option, so I assume that my modem is at least supported. >> > > I am using that modem in my HP Omnibook 7100. Beware that the defalut > pccard.conf file hard codes it's IRQ to 10. > > Don't know about the NIC. > >-- >Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 843-745-3154 >Westvaco >Charleston SC. >-- >Windows 98: n. > useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and > a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system > originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit > company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. >- >(c) 1999 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message