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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
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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
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