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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!megadata!andrew From: andrew@megadata.mega.com.au (Andrew McRae) Subject: Re: Notebook / Laptop issues WRT: FreeBSD Message-ID: <1994Sep22.214854.29723@mega.com.au> Originator: andrew@eden Sender: news@mega.com.au Organization: MITS Real Time Ltd, North Ryde, Sydney, Aust. References: <35rfhv$b1g@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 21:48:54 GMT Lines: 28 From article <35rfhv$b1g@agate.berkeley.edu>, by jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard): > In article <hart.780152095@apanix.apana.org.au>, > Leigh Hart <hart@apanix.apana.org.au> wrote: >>How does FreeBSD 1.1-Gamma contend with the issues of power management, >>ie: disk power-down, screen power-down, CPU sleep, CPU suspend, etc. > >>Any way that FreeBSD can access the 14.4k modem or ethernet card? > > Depends on the ethernet card - 1.1.5.1 has support for a couple of > generic IBM and National ethernet cards. My `infomover' works just > fine (ze0). > Jordan I am doing some work on making ze0 more generic by recognising the CIS string in the ethernet card. I also am looking at porting the Linux PCMCIA stuff, or at least implementing something similar by putting in a PCIC device driver and write a daemon that performs some autoconfig when a card gets plugged in etc. I am hoping this will be finished in time to contrib to 2.0, but if not I will port it to 2.0 when it is released. Cheers, Andrew McRae inet: andrew@mega.com.au MITS Real Time Ltd, uucp: ..!uunet!mega.com.au!andrew North Ryde 2113 Phone: +61 2 805 0899 NSW AUSTRALIA Fax: +61 2 887 4847