Hi,
I have the base system of FreeBSD 7.1. installed, but can't get the Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet card to work. I googled quite a lot of messages from several mailing list and groups, but none of them had a direct answer to this question. Some said that it worked on 6.* and discontinued to work in 7.0, some said that a patch from Oct 2007 would fix this (should it be in the main?) Some of the posts I found were from back 2002, so this problem is not new, but there still seems to be some mysterious things with it.
At first, my system would not even boot if the card was connected. I added
in loader.conf in order to load the xe driver. This seemed to fix the problem at least in some parts, since I was able to boot the system with the Ethernet card connected. The card did not work, though. I tried the same thing with the dc driver, with the same results.
At this point the ifconfig command showed interfaces lo0 and plip0. The complete command output is attached to this message. Also the output of the dmesg -s command is attached.
After booting to another OS to use the net and then booting back to FreeBSD, the system crashed again if the card was connected. I have no idea why this is. The results seem to different if I only remove the cable, but leave the card inside, because in some cases the system only hangs at boot time, while on some cases it gives a fatal trap and makes a reboot.
The card is Xircom Realport CardBus Ethernet 10/100+modem 56 RBEM56G-100.
According to the documentation at least some the similar Xircom cards should be supported.
All help is appreciated in solving this problem. Thanks.
I have the base system of FreeBSD 7.1. installed, but can't get the Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet card to work. I googled quite a lot of messages from several mailing list and groups, but none of them had a direct answer to this question. Some said that it worked on 6.* and discontinued to work in 7.0, some said that a patch from Oct 2007 would fix this (should it be in the main?) Some of the posts I found were from back 2002, so this problem is not new, but there still seems to be some mysterious things with it.
At first, my system would not even boot if the card was connected. I added
Code:
if_xe_load="YES"
in loader.conf in order to load the xe driver. This seemed to fix the problem at least in some parts, since I was able to boot the system with the Ethernet card connected. The card did not work, though. I tried the same thing with the dc driver, with the same results.
At this point the ifconfig command showed interfaces lo0 and plip0. The complete command output is attached to this message. Also the output of the dmesg -s command is attached.
After booting to another OS to use the net and then booting back to FreeBSD, the system crashed again if the card was connected. I have no idea why this is. The results seem to different if I only remove the cable, but leave the card inside, because in some cases the system only hangs at boot time, while on some cases it gives a fatal trap and makes a reboot.
The card is Xircom Realport CardBus Ethernet 10/100+modem 56 RBEM56G-100.
According to the documentation at least some the similar Xircom cards should be supported.
All help is appreciated in solving this problem. Thanks.