I haven't done much with PCCARD on -CURRENT lately. Last time I tried, a couple of months ago, I got repeated freezes on the two 100 Mb/s NICs I have. I've just built a kernel as of about 30 hours ago, and I find:
1. Xircom RealPort RE-100 (xe driver). Comes up with unidentified media. Doesn't react to dhclient. Won't let me set the mediaopt. I have to first set a valid IP address, after which it comes up as 100baseTX. I can't find a way to set full-duplex, but maybe the card doesn't support it. I tried to tar an NFS-mounted file system to see how fast it went: tar cf /dev/null /src Almost immediately, I got these messages, repeated frequently: Jan 13 10:57:29 sydney kernel: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514) Jan 13 10:58:13 sydney kernel: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514) I checked at the other end and confirmed that the frames were in fact 1514 bytes long. 2. 3Com 3c905. # ifconfig xl0 xl0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:10:4b:f8:fd:20 media: Ethernet autoselect # dhclient xl0 # ifconfig xl0 xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fef8:fd20%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 192.109.197.89 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.109.197.255 ether 00:10:4b:f8:fd:20 media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>) # ifconfig xl0 mediaopt 100baseTX ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured Looking at the LEDs on the dongle and on the switch, this card is in fact in 100baseTX full-duplex mode. Starting the tar job mentioned before freezes the system within seconds. I'm available for testing this if anybody can tell me what to do. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message