i386/77239: 3Com 3CXFEM656C does not seem to be supported by xl driver, despite HARDWARE.TXT

[David Perry]

>Number:         77239
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       3Com 3CXFEM656C does not seem to be supported by xl driver, despite HARDWARE.TXT
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 07 21:50:13 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Perry
>Release:        5.3-RELEASE
>Organization:
LLNL
>Environment:
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

(Hand-typed -- may contain typos)
>Description:
      HARDWARE.TXT says that the 3Com CardBus 3CXFEM656C NIC is supported by the xl driver, but that does not seem to be the case.  I have a Dell Latitude CPx which I installed from a downloaded ISO.  My experience seems to be the same as that of Karel Miklav (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-October/005103.html).

The driver seems to read the card, but cannot configure it (from dmesg):
xl0: <3Com 3c656C Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0x88000000-0x8800007f,0x88000080-0x880000ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus1
xl0: using memory mapped I/O
xl0: reset didn't complete
xl0: command never completed!
xl0: command never completed!
xl0: eeprom failed to come ready
xl0: failed to read station address
device_attach: xl0 attach returned 6


>How-To-Repeat:
      Re-installed once with same results.  Reboot shows the same dmesg output.
>Fix:
      None
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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