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. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
