IBM TP 600E - Xircom Cardbus

[Bob Bishop]

At 10:38 21/9/03, Scott Mitchell wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:17:14PM +1000, Jason Friedland wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > I'm after a few pointers for installing FreeBSD 5.1 on a TP 600E. I have
> > installed it on this machine previously but couldn't get my Xircom
> > CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + 56K Modem card working so threw the towel in.
> >
> > I have Slackware 9 on it right now and it works flawlessly after a bit
> > of tweaking (well, all the devices such as the Xircom, sound, DVD work)
> > but really want to get 5.1 going.
> >
> > After googling around for FreeBSD on a 600E I found an article
> > (focussing on 4.7) which suggested I recompile the kernel in order to
> > get the Xircom working. I did this, rebooted and still no ethernet.
> >
> > I know this is a bit vague but if anyone has some tips on how to get
> > this card going I'd be most grateful.
> >
> > Jason Friedland
> > (FreeBSD noob)
>
>As Doug says in his reply, CardBus is only supported on FreeBSD 5.x, so
>you're definitely SOL getting this card to work on 4.7.
>
>Could you switch back to the 5.1 GENERIC kernel and post the contents of
>your /etc/rc.conf, /var/log/dmesg.boot and any messages that show up on the
>console when you insert the card?
>
>AFAIK this card is supported, but there may well be some kernel or other
>config tweaking required to get the 600E to recognise it.  Any other 600E
>owners with working pccard slots out there know the right magic words?

One thing to watch with the 600E is that early BIOSs don't support ACPI - 
for instance BIOS upgrade with ACPI is required to run Win2k. I have no 
idea whether this is relevant to the current case.

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