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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2003 14:00:08 +0100
From:      Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>
To:        Gavin Kenny <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   xe problems [was: Re: what is /var/empty]
Message-ID:  <20030510130008.GA8616@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030509154329.630.qmail@web41710.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDAF1@EX-LONDON> <20030509154329.630.qmail@web41710.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 04:43:29PM +0100, Gavin Kenny wrote:
> OK nearly got my xe card working, foregot to enable
> pccard in rc.conf (Doh)
> 
> however dmesg says the card is 100Mbps capable and
> seems to load the driver but then prints the following
> two lines:
> 
> module_register: module pccard/xe already exists!
> linker_file_sysinit "if_xe.ko" failed to register! 17
> 
> Anyone got any ideas what these mean?

This seems to happen when you have a driver compiled into your kernel that
something (presumably pccardd in this case) later tries to load again as a
module.  I'm pretty sure it's harmless.

> The card can be configured and runs at 10Mbps, but I
> can't get it to run at 100Mbps which is crucial. Does
> this driver run at 100Mbps?

The driver is quite happy with 100Mbps, but the Xircom cards' auto-sensing
doesn't always work with some hubs/switches.  Have you tried forcing the
interface into 100Mbps mode rather than leaving it to autoselect?

	Scott

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