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From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pcmcia support ?
Date: 9 Jan 1997 17:26:18 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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In article <32D4485E.16F0@global-sol.com>,
Timothy P. Layton, Sr. <tlayton@global-sol.com> wrote:
>I am running FreeBSD on my server and would like install 
>it on my notebook.  I looked at the FreeBSD web site for
>pcmcia support and found very little.  It listed IBM and
>National Semiconductor ethernet cards.  

Single function 3Com cards work as well (and are listed).

>Does any one know of any other pcmcia ethernet cards that
>will work ?

See above.  At some point (when I or someone else in the project finds
lots of time) we'll go through the PCCARD code (/sys/pccard), extend,
document and clean it up enough so that 'normal' users can use it.  It's
really a much better way of doing things, but it currently requires too
much internals knowledge to get it working.

The BSD-Nomads in Japan have done a pretty good job of extending it,
although some of the extensions introduce other bugs, so that's why
their code isn't in the mainline.

See:
http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/PAO/


Nate
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