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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!olive!navmat.navy.gov.au!posgate!posgate.apana.org.au!posgate.acis.com.au!news.act.apana.org.au!warrane.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!wnoc-sfc-news!kogwy!hosokawa From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Compaq Aero, anyone? Date: 10 Feb 1996 02:56:10 GMT Organization: Tokoro Laboratory, Keio University, Yokohama Japan. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4fh1ga$c97@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp> References: <4f18o9$1g1@news.cs.hope.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: remington.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Dnas-Posting-Host: 131.113.11.112 X-Newsreader: gn + gnspool [Version 1.31 OCT.1,1994 (Unix)] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13617 comp.sys.laptops:54527 In article <4f18o9$1g1@news.cs.hope.edu> boris@cs.hope.edu writes: >> I'm wondering if the situation has changed (PCMCIA support beyond >> alpha stage, etc.). Has anyone had any luck setting up and running >> FreeBSD while retaining the use of things like APM and PCMCIA? >> An Aero success story would be wonderful, but I'll be encouraged >> enough to try if anyone has succeeded with any similar laptop. One of the alpha-testers of "pccard-test" package uses Compaq Contura, but we have not tested this package on Aero. APM of Contura has a minor problem of status report event (I don't know whether APM of Aero has the same problem), so APM driver of 2.1.0R can't drive APM of Contura properly. "pccard-test" contains some patches for APM driver to cope with such problems. BTW, now I'm making PCMCIA-ready sysinstall and install floppy (pccard.flp). You will be able to install FreeBSD via CDROM over PCMCIA SCSI card, when this work is finished. "pccard-test" web page: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/freebsd-pcmcia/ Tatsumi Hosokawa "pccard-test" package for FreeBSD APM driver of FreeBSD and daemon artworks for FreeBSD :-)