What do you think of the new 3COM cards with X-Jack ?

[Andreas Klemm]

Hi Matthew and Warner,

hope you feel well ... the 3 little children above me jumped
like hell over us in the sleeping room, so I got up earlier
than expected, oh dear ;-)

Gives me some extra time for troubleshooting and reminds me
to get a new appartement quickly ;-))

Could you or someone else please try to answer me the
following questions ... I have to decide today if I
have to downgrade my Laptop to 4.9pre.

I'd like to help to troubleshoot the issues with
-currents instabilities, but on the other hand I
sometimes need a Laptop with network support at work
!= WinXP to do my usual scripting tasks with Cisco
devices and such ...

1) can I use 16 and 32 Bit PCMCIA network cards under -current
   using one kernel or do I need to compile a special kernel for
   16 Bit PCMCIA cards ?
   Do I have perhaps to compile a special kernel for 16 Bit
   PCMCIA ethernet cards with OLDCARD settings ?

2) My 16 Bit Xircom card doesn't run anymore under -current...
   Its a Xircom Realport Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 aka REM-56G-100.
   Has perhaps the xe driver got the same performance enhancements that
   broke the xl driver ??
   What do you think do I need to do, to get it working again
   under -current ?

3) Q: / idea: could somebody make a kernel option from these 
   performance enhancements ? Since they seem to break
   drivers. Is perhaps a damn work, if every driver has to
   be touched... But theoretically even under -current
   things shouldn't be committed that break thinks on the
   long run ... And since I tried 2 separate -currents
   which are about 1 month away from each other, -currents
   PCMCIA support concerning NICs seems to be broken since
   a relatively long time.

	Andreas ///

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