From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 12 15:51:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA21559 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:51:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA21549 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:50:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA00752; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kelvin Pang cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Notebook In-Reply-To: <3461D7FC.1860@uni.net.hk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Kelvin Pang wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I've tried installing the FreeBSD on the notebook. I found that not too > much PCMCIA card FreeBSD is supporting (only the PCMCIA card from IBM > and National SemiConductor is supported as from the 2.2.2 release note). > Are all PCMCIA cards from IBM are supported? I want to check whether the > model number 72H5433 from IBM is supported. May you help? Thanks a lot. Many more PCCARDs are supported under the PCCARD support in the release and through the PAO package at http://www.jp.freebsd.org. > Besides, the PCMCIA card I'm currently using is Xircom. How can I, by > any method, use it for FreeBSD? Pls suggest. Thanks a lot. I don't think any Xircoms are supported since they refuse to release programming specifications. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major