Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:54:04 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: "Hauan, David" <david.hauan@fairchild.af.mil> Subject: Re: wrong Xircom card?? Message-ID: <20040728205404.GA466@tuatara.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <20040728173431.GB65532@tao.thought.org> References: <59FD5336D1B1FA40AF6DDD241D8DBAC68C10C7@amcw2ms517.amc.ds.af.mil> <20040726230518.GA97334@tao.thought.org> <20040727005551.GA97598@tao.thought.org> <20040728165918.GA82093@llama.fishballoon.org> <20040728173431.GB65532@tao.thought.org>
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 05:59:19PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > What exact Xircom card is this? The xe driver only knows about the older > > Xircom PCMCIA cards. Some of their CardBus adapters are (I believe) > > handled by the dc driver. > > > I have the Xircom Ethernet II 10/100 CBE2-100 (IIRC); someone > on the -mobile list said that only 5.X recognizes this card. > > Both a floppy install of 5.2.1 and a CDROM 5.2.1 recognize > the Cardbus; but both poison almost immediately. --So, for now, > I'm sticking with 4.8 and looking for a PCMCIA card that > works with 4.8. > > gary Yeah, that's a CardBus card that will only work with 5.x - there's no CardBus support whatsoever in 4.x. You seem to be getting some good pointers in another thread to PCMCIA adapters that should work with your machine. If you can find them, the Xircom CE3 or CEM56 / REM56 work pretty well. Most other Xircom cards don't work well on 4.x, and this is unlikely to be fixed, at least not by me. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon
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