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From: grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: PCMCIA (was Re: MCA support?)
Date: 27 May 1994 19:19:19 GMT
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corp, Richardson, TX USA
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Message-ID: <2s5h3n$ioc@convex.convex.com>
References: <1994May27.163614.567@is.morgan.com>
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As there is such a big demand for PCMCIA:
I've PCMCIA support up and running in NetBSD current.
Requirements are (at the moment) only that the PCMCIA controller chip
is a 82365sl or clone. That should cover most of the systems.
(As far as I know even thinkpad's have in IBM 82365sl clone).
There is a small device driver that handles the chip. As someone writes
one for another chip every supported card would work there immediately.
At the moment I have a D-Link ethernet card and a Megahertz modem.
Any NE2000 compatible card should work with minor changes. IBM cards
are supported but not tested.
Some cards (D-Link, IBM ethernet , Megahertz modem) are automatically
recognized during the boot process and the mapping for the PCMCIA bus is
build based on config and card information.
Also you can turn off a card (and remove it) during runtime, or insert and
attach it during runtime (Reattching should work on monday , one bug left :-).
TODO: modload for additional card drivers ... but I'll wait with that until
Lite is merged and config.new is the default.
FUTURE GOAL: get NetBSD running on that small HP-PC that only has a PCMCIA
Harddisk. (I don't have one yet so don't ask :-)))
Currently I'm coordinating with Charles Hannum how the PCMCIA stuff can be
integrated in current.
Regards
Stefan
In article <1994May27.163614.567@is.morgan.com>,
Joel Reymont <joelr@morgan.com> wrote:
>Hi folks!
>
>Would anyone recommend a free (or commercial Unix)
>that supports it? I'm running on an IBM ThinkPad 750CS
I'm using NetBSD(current) and I can recommend it.
>and I would prefer *BSD over Linux, even if it requires
>some porting. I would also like to keep the access to my
>PCMCIA modem and ethernet on the above conditions.
>
>Any recomendations?
>
>Thanks a lot, Joel. (who doesn't want to waste his skills on Windows)
>
>P.S. I got word that somebody hacked MCA support into NetBSD and
> that somebody else added support for PCMCIA to BSDI. Any
> pointers to those pieces of code?
>
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