Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:59:39 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <s.mitchell@computer.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, Peter J Jones <p@dancris.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Toshiba Tecra 8100 and Xircom CreditCard 10/100 Message-ID: <20000224215939.01652@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200002231653.IAA30176@ptavv.es.net>; from Kevin Oberman on Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 08:53:40AM -0800 References: <38B32D96.6202DA5F@dancris.com> <200002231653.IAA30176@ptavv.es.net>
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 08:53:40AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Peter, > > You don't say exactly which Xircom card you are using. If it's a > RealPort-1 card (RE-100), it should work fine with 3.4. I have not had > any problems with mine since I figured out the incantations for the > kernel and the pccard.conf file. NOTE: This is not PAO. It's standard > 3.4-Release. > > In the kernel configuration, uncomment the line for xe0 and comment > out the zp0 and ze0 lines. Then go to pccard.conf and set a hard IRQ > for the card. 10 seems to usually work, but for some systems 9 and 11 > might be magic. If you system can boot windows, I would suggest doing > so, checking the IRQ used, and using the same one in FreeBSD. Don't > specify the IRQ to the kernel, but put in the pccard.conf. The lines > in pccard.conf.sample are fine except for the '?' that should be > replaced with the desired IRQ value. > > Rebuild the kernel and reboot. Also, subscribe to the xircom-specific > mailing list <xircom-freebsd@lovett.com> and/or see the Xircom-FreeBSD > web pages at http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~scott/xe_drv/. Note that you > don't need to download the driver if you are running 3.4 as it is now > in the distribution. > > Forcing the IRQ seems to fix more problems with this card than > anything else. > > Also, you probably don't want to run CURRENT or to install 4.0 when > it's released in a couple of weeks as the driver is known not to work > with 4.0. Thanks for summing that up so well, Kevin. I would just add that it's probably worth trying to get the card working on a non-PAO setup first. You can always install it later if you find you need it for some other piece of your hardware. Not that I have anything against PAO, it's just that neither I nor (I think) any of the other if_xe developers run it so I can't guarantee that it won't interact badly with the driver. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" s.mitchell@computer.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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