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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PCMCIA support? Date: 1 Mar 1996 19:15:50 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4h7id6$ek1@helena.MT.net> References: <4gvjjv$ril@ns.gsl.net> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <4gvjjv$ril@ns.gsl.net>, Jun John Wu <jun@gsl.net> wrote: >I am trying to figure out why the kernel could not find >any serial port, or modem. The machine is a Compaq LTE Elite laptop. One PCMCIA >slot has 3COM EtherLink III card, that works fine. the other PCMCIA slot has >US Robotics Courier 28,800 card. In addition, the COM1 port is free. FreeBSD doesn't (officially anyway) support PC-CARDS in any way, shape, or form in 2.1R. There is the alpha PC-CARD package that adds PC-CARD support that is being *slowly* integrated into the main tree as developers find time, but it has been very slow going due to time constraints. In any case, the reason it finds your ethernet card is because a driver was written specifically for that card. However, this is not acceptable, since it would mean writing a driver for *every single* PC-CARD available, which is non-trivial and a waste of time since most of them are very similar. A more generic solution is being done by the PC-CARD folks, and you can try it out on your box. PC-CARD support works pretty well on my box, but the APM stuff doesn't work at all. For more information, see: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/freebsd-pcmcia/ Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth