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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!206.127.64.132!helena.MT.net!not-for-mail From: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Plans for 3Com 3c56[23] Ethernet+Modem pcmcia card? Date: 30 May 1997 21:12:42 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5mnfsa$1ht$1@helena.MT.net> References: <5mig4k$46c$1@news2symp> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test57 (27 Apr 97) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41898 [ Email as well ] According to Gardner Buchanan <gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca>: [ 2.1.6 + 3Com ethernet/modem combo card ] >Reading the PAO pages I see that dual function cards aren't supported >yet in general, but for one or two dual function cards one of the >functions can be made to work. Typically this seems to mean being >able to use the sio function of a modem+something. I've had no >luck so far with this card though. I've had luck getting the modem working on a Megahertz combo card. It appears to work 'randomly', depending on which of the functions comes first in the PCCARD entry list. > o Is multi-function card support in the works? Supposedly the PAO folks are doing it. I started it, but gave up when the weather got nice. :) > o Are there plans for supporting this particular card? I suspect the 3Com card will be one of the first cards supported, but if/when it happens is anybody's guess. I'm not doing anything, and I don't know any other FreeBSD developers doing any work outside of the PAO group, and apparently Hosokawa-san has more on his plate than he knows what to do with, so he hasn't been doing anything lately either. If anyone wants to do the work, they'd need to buy the PCCARD docs ($500), so it's pretty cost prohibitive. Nate -- nate@sri.com.NOSPAM | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations. work #: (406) 457-9000 | nate@mt.sri.com.NOSPAM | An unfeatured document is a bug. home #: (406) 443-7063 | - John Polstra