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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers!not-for-mail 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 Organization: FreeBSD Project Lines: 88 Sender: daemon@taronga.com Approved: peter@taronga.com Message-ID: <4e1c8l$fs1@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.taronga.com X-Mailer: mnews [version 1.18PL3] 1994-08/01(Mon) 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