From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 15:13:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17221 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:13:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from loki.csc.ncsu.edu (loki.csc.ncsu.edu [152.1.213.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17180 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:13:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fwang2@unity.ncsu.edu) Received: from localhost (fwang2@localhost) by loki.csc.ncsu.edu (8.8.4/EC02Jan97) with SMTP id SAA22241; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 18:13:10 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: loki.csc.ncsu.edu: fwang2 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 18:13:09 -0500 (EST) From: Feiyi Wang X-Sender: fwang2@loki.csc.ncsu.edu To: Nate Williams cc: Michael Reilly , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3com 3c589 PCMCIA ethernet card In-Reply-To: <199801302206.PAA18097@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" Probably for most of others, but not for me. I have some bitter experience to get FreeBSD 2.2.[2,5] recognize my 3c589 PCMCIA card working on my Toshiba notebook, only end up with PAO /Feiyi On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > > Hi, You can use PAO ( FreeBSD Mobile Computing Package) in > > http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/. There is a version for FreeBSD 2.2.5, it > > will work. I was always wondering why this package can't be integrated > > into official distribution of FreeBSD? > > Because it's not necessary, since almost all of the functionality in PAO > *already* exists in FreeBSD, and has existed there since before PAO. > > > Nate >