Thinkpad 600E with Xircom ethernet adaptor

[Joshua Colp]

Hello, Gary

FreeBSD 4 doesn't support cardbus and your Xircom card probably uses it. Thus, 
you'll have to install FreeBSD 5 if you want to use it. (I had the same 
problem with my 3Com NIC).

- Joshua Colp.

On July 27, 2004 09:15 pm, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	Recently I got a 366MHz Thinkpad 600E.  It came without
> 	a network card so I  bought a Xircom Ethernet II 10/100 CBE2-100.
> 	I put the card in the bottom, slot, plugged the IBM
> 	USB-to-CAT5 cable with the adaptor to my CAT5 cable.  Into
> 	my switch, and from 4.8 floppies tried to do do a network
> 	install.
>
> 	The thing is that /stand/sysinstall only gives me two options:
> 	SLIP and PPP.  This I don't have.  I got the network screen
> 	and entered my gateway and my DNS server (NS1.THOUGHT.ORG);
> 	still, no-joy.  I toggled DCHP from hte options list, I
> 	chose the Default address range (0x0000) and irq 3.
>
> 	What am I doing wrong?  Wrong card? ...
>
> 	thanks in advance,
>
> 	gary