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From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
Subject: [PCMCIA] New pccard-test driver (alpha-960123) is now avilable
Date: 22 Jan 1996 19:05:25 -0600
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We release "pccard-test" package 960123 (alpha-test release).  It
enables FreeBSD-2.1.0 to drive many PCMCIA cards and provides you
"hotplug" PCMCIA feature on your laptop machines running
FreeBSD-2.1.0.  This work is based on Andrew McRae's sys/pccard stuffs
(thanks!).

You can get it from
ftp://bash.cc.keio.ac.jp/pub/os/FreeBSD/alpha-test/pccard/pccard-test-960123.tar.gz

Improvement upon the last release (alpha-960112):
1. Tested on more cards.
2. Instabilty problem of serial cards on some PCICs are solved by a
   quick hack.
3. Added if_fe Ethernet PCMCIA driver.
4. Fixed a bug of IRQ allocation.
5. Fixed a bug of I/O window deallocation.
6. Changed default PCMCIA serial port from sio1 to sio2 (for laptops
   that has IrDA port or serial mouse on board).
7. Many minor bugs are fixed.

Please test it and report me about it.  

Caution: It's only an alpha-release driver.  Please backup your
important data before installing this package.

Currently, we're testing this package on the cards listed below:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Type    Card                                    	Status	Driver
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ethernet
	3Com Etherlink III 3C589B			OK	ep
	3Com Etherlink III 3C589C			OK	ep
	Farallon EtherMac				OK	ep
	Fujitsu FMV-J181				OK	fe
	IBM Creditcard Ethernet I			OK	ed
	IBM Creditcard Ethernet II			OK	ed
FAX/Modem
	APEX DATA Mobile Plus V.34			OK	sio
	Fujitsu FMV-JMD712				OK	sio
	Hayes OPTIMA 288				NG	sio
	Megahertz XJ2144				OK	sio
	Megahertz XJ2144J				OK	sio
	Megahertz XJ2288				OK	sio
	Megahertz XJ3288J				NG	sio
	NewMedia FAX/Modem 14.4K			OK	sio
	NovaLink Tech. NovaModem 144			OK	sio
	OMRON ME2814 Fax/Modem				OK	sio
	OMRON MD24XCA Fax/Modem				OK	sio
	PREMAX FM288					OK	sio
	Panasonic TO-706C				NG	sio
	US Robotics Sportster PCMCIA V.34		OK	sio
	US Robotics COURIER PCMCIA V.34			OK	sio
	Xircom CreditCard Ethernet+Modem (Modem only)	OK	sio *1
ISDN
	BUG Linkboy D64K				OK	sio
Digital Cellular
	NTT DoCoMo DATA/FAX Adapter			OK	sio
IrDA
	IBM PCMCIA Serial IR Adapter Card		NG	sio
SCSI
	Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460				OK	aic
	NewMedia BusToaster				OK	aic *2
	RATOC REX-5535AC				OK	spc
	RATOC REX-5535AMC				OK	spc
	RATOC REX-5535X					OK	spc
Flash ATA
	SunDisk SPD5-5 (OEM: Epson Flash Packer 5MB)	OK	wdc
	SunDisk SPD5-20 (OEM: Epson Flash Packer 20MB)	OK	wdc
	SunDisk SPD-40 (OEM: Epson Flash Packer 40MB)	OK	wdc
ATA HDD
	Maxtor MobileMax MXL131				OK	wdc
	Mitsubishi M6887-3 170MB			OK	wdc
----------------------------------------------------------------------

*1 We don't want to support any Xircom PCMCIA cards because of their
   harsh policy against free-software.  It only simply means a Xircom
   card works with this driver by a chance :-).

*2 I've not successed to use this card with my machine, but an
   alpha-test user reported that he could use it with his machine.

Enjoy!

--
	HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi              E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp
	  WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html
	Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan