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From: "Mark N. Martin" <mmartin@olympus.ece.jhu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and 3com 3c589
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:09:00 -0400
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University AVLSI Laboratory
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To: HOSOKAWA Tatsumi <hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp>

HOSOKAWA Tatsumi wrote:
> 
> In article <31BF24E4.BA9@olympus.ece.jhu.edu>
> mmartin@olympus.ece.jhu.edu writes:
> 
> >> Has anyone gotten this combination to work??  I am not sure, but I
> >> suspect the problem lies in the PCI-PCMCIA bridge not being supported.
> >> I have also tried the boot floppy with PCMCIA card support from the
> >> folks doing the pccard work Japan.  When I boot from this folppy I get
> >> "/dev/card" not found.
> 
> What PC-card chipset does your laptop have?

the AST Ascentia J30 uses the Cirrus PD6729 chipset.
> 
> I have no laptop with PCMCIA-PCI bridge, so, I can't implement it.
> Does anyone help us?
	I have the laptop but no programming skills :(

Let's hope there is someone out in net land with both.

Mark

P.S.  I just downloaded the latest release and will be ginveing this try
tonight or tomorrow.
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