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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: 10 Apr 1996 06:41:17 GMT
Organization: Tokoro Laboratory, Keio University, Yokohama Japan.
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In article <4jsmv2$jmk@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
fms@wam.umd.edu writes:

>> HOSOKAWA Tatsumi (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp) wrote:
>> : P.S.  We need your help!
>> Will the official 3c562 documentation for the driver writers
>> help? It looks like I can get my hands on it by contacting
>> 3COM [they seem to be willing to offer it]

But I heard that 3Com does not export this card outside the US and
Canada :-).

Four months are passed after I started this "PC-card" package project.
I'm very thankful to the people who supported and helped our project.

If you write a driver for unsupported cards, please tell me.  If you
have unsupported cards, please hack them.  If you're not familiar to
PC-card architecture, please lend them to us (of course, donation is
more welcomed :-)).

Some companies gave us the information or specs of their hardware, and
a few companies donated their hardware to our project (for example,
Planet Japan donated us their Ethernet card, and today I recieved a
e-mail that a company is going to donate us their ISDN PCMCIA card
with its specification).  Thank you.

Helps currently needed:
1. Qlogic SCSI driver.
2. Future Domain SCSI driver.
3. Multifunction cards.
4. Unstability problems of serial cards on particular machines.
5. Patches to if_ed.c for some quasi-compatible cards (ex. Socket EA 
   Ethernet).
6. Cooperative operation between APM and PC-card driver.

These points are the weakness of our package compared to Linux PCMCIA
driver package.

--
	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