Thank you verry mutch for this Information, i replace my Xircom Card
with a 3c589D Card from 3COM.
Now i have the Cardservice running, but i dont know how to setup the
Carddriver for the 3com card.
The Cardsevice say unknown Card in Slot 0 or 1.
Where can i find Information how to setup the next step to use my 3com Card?
Best Reguards, Rene
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: Rene Bagia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org
Datum: Sonntag, 1. März 1998 18:55
Betreff: Re: Xircom CE10-BC PCMCIA Ethernetadapter
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Rene Bagia wrote:
Hallo,
i am a new Debian Linux user, so i have a little problem
to install my pcmcia card service correctly, so i can
use my XIRCOM CE10 Pcmcia Ethernet Adapter.
I try to install with dselect the pcmcia card service and the
pcmcia modules for the 2.0.29 Kernel but i cant use it.
I am verry happy for every help.
Your best bet is to send the XIRCOM card back to the manufacturer,
with a polite notice that, due to the non-discolsure-agrement they
force everyone who obtains technical information on their ethernet
cards to sign, there is no Linux driver available for XIRCOM cards,
and you are thus unable to use it.
Or, in other words: XIRCOM forces people to sign NDA's. Thus a driver
will never be released in source code form, as that whould be disclosing
the information. As linux is GPL, any part of linux essentially also must
have source code available. This is why you cannot use XIRCOM cards.
I believe there are binary-only modules available, but I advice you not
to use those -- you will probably not be able to use them with
newer versions of the linux kernel, and nobody can fix bugs in them.
So, really the best thing to do is to replace the XIRCOM card.
--
joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different
than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so.
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