wrong Xircom card??

Hauan, David david.hauan at fairchild.af.mil
Mon Jul 26 14:56:05 PDT 2004



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Kline [mailto:kline at tao.thought.org]
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 1:46 PM
> To: Wojciech Puchar
> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List
> Subject: Re: wrong Xircom card??
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:16:58PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > 	I'm trying a net/ftp install of 4.8 on my Thinkpad.  The
> > > 	laptop didn't come with a builtin NIC so I bought a
> > > 	Xircom 10/100 card.  (I'm using the IBM UBS to CAT5 connector.)
> > > 	The floppy install puts up /stand/sysinstall nicely, but when
> > > 	I goto the network sections I eventually see only SLIP or PPP
> > > 	as options.
> > >
> > install kernel just didn't load this driver.
> > 
> > i'm not sure now, but when booting in boot menu there is option for
> > booting with PCMCIA support, but it's not default choice
> 
> 
> 	there was one screen that mentioned the cards.  gave 4
> 	address ranges for the card; i toook the default of 0x0000.
> 
> 	anybody else on-list have the xircom card working?  i'd
> 	be only too pleased if i'm missing some magic incantation
> 	rather than having  bought the wrong card...
> 
> 	thanks, and if anyone else has insights, i'd be much obliged
> 	to hear!
> 
> 	gary
Do as above and select irq 3 from the
next screen.  That worked for my wireless
card.

dave
 


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