Re: Thinkpad 600E and 5.2

"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:21:04 -0700
> From: Gary Kline <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> 
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 05:39:21PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:08:44AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > 	Closer. After I rebuild the kernel with target OLDCARD, and 
> > > 	rebooted (withh Xircom Ethernet II 10/100 inserted, no more
> > > 	kernel traps.
> > > 
> > > 	I added  
> > > 
> > > 	 pccard_ether xe0 start link0
> > > 
> > > 	to rc.conf and rebooted. Zero.  The cabling is solid.  
> > > 	The   defaultrouter="10.0.0.1"  entry doesn't seem to
> > > 	have any effect.  I set get the "Setup PC-CARD" message
> > > 	when coming up.  How do I get into this setup?  Am I
> > > 	missing some sysctl cmd?  Anything else?
> > > 
> > > 	gary
> > 
> > Hi Gary,
> > 
> > Could you post your full /etc/rc.conf and /var/run/dmesg.boot?  The
> > hardware you've got there should work, so I'm guessing this is just a
> > configuration issue.
> > 
> > For reference, the only stuff I have in my rc.conf to enable xe0 on my
> > TP380D is:
> > 	ifconfig_xe0="DHCP"
> > 	pccard_enable="YES"
> > 
> > If you're not using DHCP, obviously put something else in the ifconfig_xe0
> > line.  Using pccard_enable is important - you're running an OLDCARD kernel
> > so you need to make sure that pccardd is started to attach the card.
> > 
> 
> 	Hm. I'm running GENERIC again,  after running with the OLDCARD
> 	configuration failed.  The system does recognize my Xircom,
> 	but as "dc0"  But when I boot with ifconfig_dc0="DHCP" I 
> 	run into 'watchdog timeout' errs (prob'ly from dhclient).
> 
> 	My card is a Xircom Ethernet II 10/100 CBE2-100.  If your
> 	card is identical, I'll go back to the OLDCARD conf and
> 	try again.

Don't bother trying OLDCARD. The CBE2-100 is a CardBus card and will not
work with OLDCARD at all. I have almost the same card, the
RBEM100-56G. This is the Realport version that also includes a 56K
Global modem. This card does use the dc(4) driver.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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