wrong Xircom card??

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:54:04PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
> 

	Nor me!  (I am going towrite keyboard-click code so that I
	miss fewer keystrokes, but as for Real-Drivers{TM}. I'll pass.)

	So new delevopments that might be helpful to others on-list 
	and as green as I am to laptops:: the 5.2.1R CDROM works--
	it boots fully--but iff the Xircom card is missing.  If this
	is not how things should work, I'd like to hear.  On the 4.8
	floppies was some blurb hat the PCMCIA cards were not 
	hot-swappable... .

	There was some complaint (along with the trap/panic) about
	"Cardbus" along with an address that I could not copy.
	But if the Xircom card isn't broken, I should be able to
	configure it in /etc/rc.conf later.  I didn't see any
	PCMCIA menus in /stand/sysinstall.  

	Nutshell: 5.2 is being installed 

	thanks everybody,

	gary


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