Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:38:52 +0100 From: "Thomas Vestergaard" <veedub@post6.tele.dk> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: pcmcia problems. Message-ID: <000801c0b2f6$f9092940$1032a8c0@main>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I have a 333 Mhz clone laptop with a old 10 Mbit Xircom pcmcia Ethernet card. I'm currently running Slackware 7.1 on it. With no problems at all. I have tried FreeBsd 4.2 with some succes.. Everything works fine except the pcmcia Ethernet card.?? First off the card manager didn't finish configuring my card until sometime after i logged in, so networking never found the darn thing. Only after I inserted a sleep period into the config file - waiting for the card manager to finish, networking seemed to configure correct. But my card never began to poll on the net, and network reported unreachable. I am sorry that I'm unable to give a more complete error message but it has been a couple of months since I last tried this so. I don't know if this is a common problem with FreeBSD and laptops, or just my hardware? (I wasn't able to find anything on it on the net ?) I am currently a fairly new student with major in networking. And I use -or plan to use- my FreeBSD laptop to diagnose and test my upcoming networking projects. Now I been told that FreeBSD is a server system only. Not meant to run laptops nor network diagnosing, and that I should stick with Linux. ??. This of course came from a Linux user 8^) If you are unable to help me with the scarce info I im able to give. I would appreciate if you could give me a hint in the right direction or If you know of some good news groups concerning FreeBSD/laptops please give me a hint. Or if you think that there was any chance i could get it to work. I can install FreeBSD again to give you a better description of my problem ?? Thanks in advance. Thomas Vestergaard [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#c0c0c0> <DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">I have a 333 Mhz clone laptop with a old 10 Mbit Xircom pcmcia Ethernet card. I’m currently running Slackware 7.1 on it. With no problems at all.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">I have tried FreeBsd 4.2 with some succes.. Everything works fine except the pcmcia Ethernet card.?? First off the card manager didn’t finish configuring my card until sometime after i logged in, so networking never found the darn thing. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Only after I inserted a sleep period into the config file – waiting for the card manager to finish, networking seemed to configure correct. But my card never began to poll on the net, and network reported unreachable.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">I am sorry that I’m unable to give a more complete error message but it has been a couple of months since I last tried this so… </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">I don’t know if this is a common problem with FreeBSD and laptops, or just my hardware? (I wasn’t able to find anything on it on the net ?)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">I am currently a fairly new student with major in networking. And I use -or plan to use- my FreeBSD laptop to diagnose and test my upcoming networking projects. Now I been told that FreeBSD is a server system only. Not meant to run laptops nor network diagnosing, and that I should stick with Linux. ??. This of course came from a Linux user 8^)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">If you are unable to help me with the scarce info I im able to give. I would appreciate if you could give me a hint in the right direction or If you know of some good news groups concerning FreeBSD/laptops please give me a hint.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">Or if you think that there was any chance i could get it to work. I can install FreeBSD again to give you a better description of my problem ??</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Thanks in advance.</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Thomas Vestergaard <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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