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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:48:55 +0100 (CET)
From:      Nick Hibma <n_hibma@skylink.it>
To:        Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Status of newcard. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911221548400.66690-100000@henny.jrc.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911221014120.406-100000@brunte.ispra.webweaving.org>

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You might have missed the buzzword here: PCCARD (not PCMCIA).

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:

> 
> Indeed, sun might be the one to bother; On one machine we are
> experiementing on with some cable-tv/wire-less-basestation, which uses a
> specific telco version of the Ultra2 there are two PCI->PCMCIA slots.
> Giving the ability to program four card's at the time.
> 
> These are also found, I've been told by the engineer which came to install
> them, in most of the KODAK imaging station's commonly found in photo
> shops. One of the OEM sun's (from Nortel with some sort of ATM monitoring
> stuff specific to telco switchboard's) has an Sbus <-> pcmcia slot. I
> believe that Tadpole make's the frame.
> 
> Dw
> 
> 
> On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It looks like there aren't any ... Well, it seems that the Sun 5 boxes
> > come with one in the back, so they certainly do exist, except that they
> > are not widely available yet, I guess.
> > 
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> > 
> > > In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.991118153332.342L-100000@henny.jrc.it> Nick Hibma writes:
> > > : Myself I have a ISA-PCMCIA plug in card, so I guess there should be
> > > : PCI-PCCARD ones as well.  Anyone any pointers on these things? 
> > > 
> > > I have a couple different isa-pcmcia card devices.  I'm looking for
> > > availability on the pci-pccard/cardbus ones.  I had a couple of leads,
> > > but they dried up when inquiries were made.  I'll have to look again.
> > > I heard a rumor that there will be some shortly to deal with the new
> > > wavelan cardbus cards in desktop systems....
> > > 
> > > Warner
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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