Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 08:39:08 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@FreeBSD.ORG>, NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa <y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp>, Philippe CASIDY <pcasidy@worldnet.fr>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which LAN PCCARD for FreeBSD (no PAO!) Message-ID: <15919.922603148@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:30:09 PDT." <199903280430.VAA06189@mt.sri.com>
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In message <199903280430.VAA06189@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: >> > > > I would like to know which card works under FreeBSD 3.1R and FreeBSD >> > > > 2.2.8R WITHOUT PAO! >> > > >> > > Why? "plain FreeBSD"'s APM and PC-Card support is limitted and >> > > buggy. You should be use PAO. >> > >> > No no no. You got it all wrong. PAO support is buggy, FreeBSD APM is >> > good, and PCCARD support is limited. :) :) :) >> >> Why do you think "PAO support is buggy"? Do you read the recent >> PAO patch? If you found bugs in PAO, please list up them. >> >> I can not understand why you dislike PAO so much. > >Because the number of options/changes that it makes to the stock FreeBSD >has often times in the past been wrong. I can say that because many >times in the past I found the real bugs in the FreeBSD code and fixed >them, while PAO provides one, two, or three different 'workarounds' for >the problem rather than trying to find the problem. I can only support Nate here. PAO is a great prototype. now we want to heed the excellent advice Frederick P. Brooks gives in his book "The Mythical Man-Month" (ISBN 0-201-83595-9) (p.116 ff): Plan to build a prototype and plan to throw it away, you will anyhow. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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