Greetings everyone:
I decided to pull the trigger and try to run FreeBSD on my IBM
ThinkPad 770Z with a 3COM 3CXFEM656C 10/100 NIC + 56k modem Cardbus combo.
Originally I tried 4.6.2-RELEASE but Cardbus isn't support so I tried both
a NetGear FA411 10/100 PCMCIA and the LinkSys PCM100 Etherfast 10/100
PCMCIA. Both worked under the ed1 driver. When I was testing speeds
to/from my desktop which is on a Intel Pro100+ Management (fxp0), the
LinkSys was doing 1080Kbytes/sec or 8.64Mbps but the NetGear started at
300Kbytes/sec or 2.4Mbps and then the speed went down to 80Kbytes/sec or
640Kbps and stayed there. I was looking at the -CURRENT srctree and
noticed that NEWCARD has been merged into GENERIC so from
current.FreeBSD.ORG, I got the 08182002 ISO Snapshot and attempted to use
the 3Com 3CXFEM656C on it, -current recognized the card and assigned it as
xl0 on irq 11. As soon as the IP is assigned to it with:
ifconfig xl0 inet 209.204.138.100 netmask 255.255.255.0
It keeps sending xl0: watchdog timeout repeatively to the console.
When I tried the LinkSys and the NetGear PCMCIA 16bit cards, it says card
functions not found. Anyone have any ideas what's wrong or what other
-current snapshot version should I be using? Is it just the 3Com is a bad
card to use or is there another cardbus NIC that works well? Thanks!
Cheers,
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