Xircom 10/100 Network Card and 3Com 10/100 Base-TX

David Dooley dpd at raffles-it.com
Wed Dec 13 12:54:45 GMT 2000


Hi,

I have a problem with a Xircom 10/100 CE3 network card, in that I cannot get 
it to drive at 100Mbit works OK at 10Mbit. I have what claims to be a 
10/100Base-TX adapter cable that I belive should support the 100Mbit 
networking. I have my network plugged into a 100Mbit hub port. I get the 
following from ifconfig:

xe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::280:c7ff:fed9:7495%xe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb 
        inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
        ether 00:80:c7:d9:74:95 
        media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
        supported media: autoselect 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX

and the following from pccard dumcis:

# pccardc dumpcis
Code 136 not found
Code 136 not found
code Unknown ignored
Configuration data for card in slot 0
Tuple #1, code = 0x1 (Common memory descriptor), length = 2
    000:  00 ff
        Common memory device information:
                Device number 1, type No device, WPS = OFF
                Speed = No speed, Memory block size = reserved, 32 units
Tuple #2, code = 0x17 (Attribute memory descriptor), length = 2
    000:  00 ff
        Attribute memory device information:
                Device number 1, type No device, WPS = OFF
                Speed = No speed, Memory block size = reserved, 32 units
Tuple #3, code = 0x15 (Version 1 info), length = 44
    000:  05 00 58 69 72 63 6f 6d 00 43 72 65 64 69 74 43
    010:  61 72 64 20 31 30 2f 31 30 30 00 43 45 33 2d 31
    020:  30 2f 31 30 30 00 31 2e 30 30 00 ff
        Version = 5.0, Manuf = [Xircom], card vers = [CreditCard 10/100]
        Addit. info = [CE3-10/100],[1.00]
Tuple #4, code = 0x0 (Null tuple), length = 8
    000:  d9 74 95 00 00 00 00 00
Tuple #5, code = 0x20 (Manufacturer ID), length = 5
    000:  05 01 0a 01 43
        PCMCIA ID = 0x105, OEM ID = 0x10a
Tuple #6, code = 0x44 (Card init date), length = 4
    000:  bd 03 24 21
Tuple #7, code = 0x1a (Configuration map), length = 5
    000:  01 01 00 08 03
        Reg len = 2, config register addr = 0x800, last config = 0x1
        Registers: XX------ 
Tuple #8, code = 0x1b (Configuration entry), length = 25
    000:  c1 c1 bd 7f 55 4d 5d 3e 46 46 06 e0 17 17 e4 60
    010:  00 00 0f 70 bc 8e 10 00 20
        Config index = 0x1(default)
        Interface byte = 0xc1 (I/O)  +RDY/-BSY active, wait signal supported
        Vcc pwr:
                Nominal operating supply voltage: 5 x 1V
                Minimum operating supply voltage: 4.5 x 1V
                Maximum operating supply voltage: 5.5 x 1V
                Continuous supply current: 3.5 x 100mA
                Max current average over 1 second: 4 x 100mA
                Max current average over 10 ms: 4 x 100mA
                Power down supply current: 1 x 100mA
        Wait scale Speed = 1.2 x 10 ms
        RDY/BSY scale Speed = 1.2 x 10 ms
        Card decodes 4 address lines, full 8/16 Bit I/O
                I/O address # 1: block start = 0x0 block length = 0x10
                IRQ modes: Level, Pulse
                IRQs:  2 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 15
        Memory space length = 0x10
        Max twin cards = 0
        Misc attr: (Power down supported)
Tuple #9, code = 0x21 (Functional ID), length = 2
    000:  06 00
        Network/LAN adapter
Tuple #10, code = 0x22 (Functional EXT), length = 8
    000:  04 06 00 80 c7 d9 74 95
        Network node ID: 00 80 c7 d9 74 95
Tuple #11, code = 0x22 (Functional EXT), length = 2
    000:  01 02
        Network technology: Ethernet
Tuple #12, code = 0x22 (Functional EXT), length = 5
    000:  02 80 96 98 00
        Network speed: 10 Mb/sec
Tuple #13, code = 0x22 (Functional EXT), length = 5
    000:  02 00 e1 f5 05
        Network speed: 100 Mb/sec
Tuple #14, code = 0x22 (Functional EXT), length = 2
    000:  03 01
        Network media: UTP
Tuple #15, code = 0x22 (Functional EXT), length = 2
    000:  03 03
        Network media: Thin coax
Tuple #16, code = 0x22 (Functional EXT), length = 2
    000:  05 00
        Network connector: open connector standard
Tuple #17, code = 0xff (Terminator), length = 0

I am running FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE. On a Pentium III 400MHz system and 128MB 
memory.

Another related question is I also have a 3Com 10/100 Base-TX card (Model 
3CCFE575BT-D) are these supported as I get not a lot from pccardc dumpcis:-

Configuration data for card in slot 0
Tuple #1, code = 0xff (Terminator), length = 0

Thank you for any and all assistance.


David.





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