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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: EKR <ekr@terisa.com>
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Subject: Re: PCMCIA/APM for 2.1
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> I'm running 2.1 Released on my laptop. So far, I've managed to
> get some of the PCMCIA support working in that it my 3c589 seems
> to work great (though of course without hot swap.) but my
> MegaHertz 28.8 isn't found, and APM seems not to work well
> at all.

PCMCIA support doesn't exist in 2.1.  There are support for some PCMCIA
cards (notably the 3C589), but generic support isn't there yet.  In
-current there is better support, and I'm working on integrating some
stuff from the BSD Nomad group in Japan into both -current and -stable.

However, the APM code is a bit of a hairy situation right now.  I'm not
expert in it and I have no documentation, although I'm trying to work
with the a couple folks to sort the APM situation out, as well as the
PC-CARD support. 

> I'd rather not have to do any programming, but if that's the shortest
> path to completion, I want to hear that too.

We could use some more 'programmers' right now to help figure out what's
needed with both PC-CARD and APM support.


Nate