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List:       openbsd-mobile
Subject:    OpenBSD-mobile: 2.7 - Install problems - Xircom Realport 10/100 & 3com 575
From:       ziegast () vix ! com (Eric Ziegast)
Date:       2000-06-23 9:42:10
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Booting floppy27.fs, it couldn't find my Xircom RealPort 10/100 card.
Booting floppyB27.fs, it found the card, link light up, interface not
up.

Whenever I used ifconfig to bring up the link, the link light
turns off, and the xe0 device does a timeout (similar to the message
described below).  I tried numerous media options like
        media autoselect
        media 10baseT
        media 10baseT media-opt full-duplex
and I even tried instance 1, 2, and 3 with "media 10baseT".
No link light for any of them.  :^(


The 3com LAN CardBus 10/100 ethernet card I have fared worse
model 3CCFE575BT).  Neither boot floppy mentioned above was
able to detect it.


I'm going to track down some monkeys Friday at Usenix to see if
any of them can help.  If so, I'll post what made them work.

--
Eric Ziegast
ziegast@vix.com

PS: Dang it!  I really wanted to rip Windows off my laptop tongiht.

PPS: My platform is ThinkPad 570.

From: Mike Lockwood <mike@voodoomonkey.com>
To: Joseph_Shaw@enron.net
Cc: tda@dse-nets.com, openbsd-mobile@monkey.org
Subject: Re: OpenBSD-mobile: laptop/nic/prob..

Hi Joseph,

I am running OpenBSD with a Xircom RealPort 10/100 + 56K Modem and it
works great.  The problem you are having is that the Xircom driver is
not able to autodetect the media type.  But if you execute:

ifconfig xe0 media 10baseT

it should start working for you.  Unfortunately, I don't remember how
the installer floppy works, but I think it provides an option to pass
extra parameters when configuing the network.

After your install, set up /etc/hostname.xe0 to look like:

inet <ip address> <netmask> media 10baseT

hope this helps,
Mike

Joseph_Shaw@enron.net wrote:
>
> I am having similar problems with the Xircom PCMCIA "Creditcard" 10/100 card on
> an IBM Thinkpad 600 and on a 600E.  I used the floppy26.fs floppy to boot and
> ftp install with no problems using this card, but now that the install is done I
> cannot get the card to work properly.  It's detected on bootup as device xe0,
> but when I try to ifconfig the interface up or use dhclient to get a DHCP
> address, the link light goes away and I get the same device timeout messages.
> Since the Xircom support seems to be relatively new (I believe that's what I
> read in the i386 supported hardware list) it may be that the support is just
> extremely flaky.  I have tried everything from installing a snapshot image to
> recompiling the kernel and I still cannot get the Xircom card to work.
>
> I've attempted to try and figure out where the problem lies, but I'm not much of
> a C programmer.  I'm assuming it's a problem with the kernel driver, but I'm
> somewhat stumped as to a way of getting the Xircom card working reliably.
>
> --
> Joseph W. Shaw
> Sr. Security Specialist
> Enron Broadband Services
>
> im trying to do an ftp install an whenever it trys to get out to the net
> it comes back with:
>
> xe0: device timeout
> xe0: device timeout
> xe0: device timeout
> xe0: device timeout
>
> I have a Xircom Ethernet + 33.6 modem card that is supported:
>
> the bootfloppy im using supports it:
> --- -  -   -    -
> floppy26.fs supports the following devices not supported by floppy26B.fs:
> Ethernet:
>
> NE2000 PCMCIA
> 3com 3c5xx PCMCIA
> Xircom PCMCIA
> --- -  -   -    -
>
> I'm kinda at a loss.. have'nt messed with bsd for a long time now an when
> i tried to install it on this laptop before there was no support for my
> particular nic. :)  any suggestions? documentation i should look
> at? webpages?  thanks in advance.. :)
>
> tda

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