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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!venus.sun.com!wnoc-sfc-news!kogwy!hosokawa From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [FreeBSD PCMCIA] PC-card support new alpha-release Date: 31 Mar 1996 04:30:13 GMT Organization: Tokoro Laboratory, Keio University, Yokohama Japan. Lines: 50 Message-ID: <4jl1ol$d1m@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp> References: <4jjqje$43a@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: beretta.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Dnas-Posting-Host: leinlein.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp X-Newsreader: gn + gnspool [Version 1.31 OCT.1,1994 (Unix)] In article <4jjqje$43a@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp> I wrote: >> FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE lacks "real" PC-card (PCMCIA) support. It >> supports only two Ethernet cards (IBM and 3Com) and it doesn't support >> so-called "hotplug" feature. Our PC-card (PCMCIA) package supports >> many cards includes Ethernet, FAX/Modem, ISDN, SCSI, Flash ATA, ATA >> HDD, etc. ....And it enables "hotplug" of these cards on your laptop running FreeBSD. Target system is Machine: PC-card: Intel i82365SL or compatible PCICs (Cirrus Logic PD-6710, PD-672x, Vadem VG-468, VG-469, IBM King, IBM PCIC, VLSI 82C146, Ricoh RF5C396, etc.) are supported. Databook TCIC is not supported. APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS: APM specification version 1.0 or later. PC-cards: The supported cards are listed in <4jjqje$43a@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp>. OS: FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE, and FreeBSD 2.2-960323-SNAP P.S. We need your help! 1. Documentation I think that installing and configuring this package is not difficult for hackers. But I think it's still difficult for non-hackers to enable unsupported cards. We need good documentation of this package (like Linux's PCMCIA-HOWTO), but we have little time to do that (because I can write C faster than English :-) ). 2. failure 3 of "sio" Some PCMCIA-cards fails sioprobe at "failure 3", "5", and "8". "5" and "8" are releated to IRQ, and it can be avoided by specifying "IRQ 16" (PIO hack) at /etc/pccardc.conf, but "3" has not been solved yet. -- 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