Re: How to make an Intel EtherExpress known to xe(4)?

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Scott Mitchell wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:21:45PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> > As Scott Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > > That comment about not knowing what most of the config bits do was
> > > obviously written before I got hold of the programming manual :-)
> > > I'll have a look tonight and see what the 'CRC' bit actually does.
> >
> > Ah, didn't know you've got the docs now.  It seems they are only available
> > under NDA, unfortunately.
>
> Xircom did put them up on their web site sometime back in 1999, right
> before they were bought by Intel.  It had some kind of click-through
> licence and was quite hard to find.  No idea if it's still available.

Since you have have docs for this card, any ideas on why it likes to
signal at least one watchdog timeout when inserted and ifconfig'd?  I also
have noticed that if I boot the machine with the card in the slot, the
kernel is unable to attach, but slotting it after pccardd is up works
fine.  I have the Intel branded xe0, if it matters.  This is all under
4.7-STABLE.  I don't use it much anymore, as my current laptop has an
onboard miniPCI 3com xl0 driven NIC, but I do need two interfaces on
occasion so I keep it around.  I can test anything you like or provide any
output you want.

Jamie Bowden

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Iain Bowen <[email protected]>



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