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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:42:54 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        ko-baba@kdd.co.jp
Cc:        nate@sri.MT.net, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel reconfiguration for 3Com PCMCIA
Message-ID:  <199603181542.IAA04372@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <H00006dd017709a7@MHS>
References:  <199603110557.WAA10786@rocky.sri.MT.net> <H00006dd017709a7@MHS>

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> > > >> How can I do that under this situation (using only PCMCIA 3C589C
> > > >>  ( original kernel does not support this )).
> > > >
> > > >Can you download the sources to floppies on another machine and load
> > > >them that way?
> > > 
> > > Yes! If you can point me out which source is mandatory for this kernel
> > > building, I can update my sources.
> > 
> > /usr/src/sys/* & /usr/src/usr.sbin/config/*
> > 
> > 
> > Nate
> 
> 
> Finally, I could make new kernel, but it still does not find PCMCIA.

It will only find the 3C589C and nothing else.  Generic PC-CARD support
doesn't exist in FreeBSD.

> I tried /stand/sysinstall after rebooting and found that
>  there might be something misconfiguration for /dev/card.
>  (it says "Can't open PC-card controller /dev/card")
> There are /dev/card0 and /dev/card1. I can not understand the
> reason why this message appears.

Because there is no support for PC-CARDs.  There is support for the
3C589[B|C] cards with the if_zp driver, but that's not generic support.


Nate



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