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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!garlic.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!129.35.248.10!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com!news@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com From: tjevans@hotmail.com (Thomas Evans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD (current) good for Laptops? Date: 07 Dec 1996 15:59:37 -0500 Organization: TCP/IP development Lines: 29 Sender: tjevans@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com Message-ID: <m2n2vq3wau.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> References: <32993EA8.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> <58bes8$3ks@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp> Reply-To: tjevans@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: evans.raleigh.ibm.com In-reply-to: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp's message of 7 Dec 1996 09:54:16 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 > Hmm.. If you have old kernel, pleas try to add 0x10 at the end of > config line of your Ethernet card's entry of /etc/pccard.conf. > > For example, > > card "IBM Corp\." "Ethernet" > config default "ed0" any > ether 0xff0 08:00:5a 00:04:ac > > to, > > card "IBM Corp\." "Ethernet" > config default "ed0" any 0x10 > ether 0xff0 08:00:5a 00:04:ac I was using the 2.1.6 kernel which just came out, is it old already ;-) Before I try the extra parm, can you briefly explain what it does? thx, Tom -- Tom Evans tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com Disclaimer: My views are my own, your mileage might vary, taxes are extra, etc