Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:58:41 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: dwinner-lists@att.net Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Com Megahertz 3CXM756 PCMCIA modem on 5.3 Message-ID: <20050203.155841.23016916.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <4202A278.80707@att.net> References: <20050125.153403.116353342.imp@bsdimp.com> <41FD18DA.2000503@att.net> <4202A278.80707@att.net>
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Duane Winner <dwinner-lists@att.net> writes:
:
: >
: > I was just wondering what the status of this is, if any. I'm about
: > commit our in-house installation procedures for 5.3, and others on my
: > team are going to want to migrate soon, but lack of PPP support on our
: > laptops isn't going to fly over too well, especially now that there is
: > some travelling going on. We want to stick to -release, as opposed to
: > -stable.
: >
: > I was thinking, I figure we have three possible options:
: >
: > 1. If your patch is going to get merged into 5.3-release, that would
: > be the best route; but if that isn't going to happen, or not soon:
: >
: > 2. Could we manually apply your patch to /usr/src after cvsup'ing
: > before buildword/buildkernel?
:
: For what it's worth, I answered my own question by finding version
: 1.17.2.1 of exca.c up on the cvs tree and replaced
: /usr/src/sys/dev/exca/exca.c in my 5.3 src tree. Rebuilt kernel, and
: voila! I can use my modem on 5.3-release!
Yup. That's the moral equivalent of applying the patch.
: Maybe not the most graceful way of going about it (and i'll have to
: remember to watch this when I cvsup and get a patch for /usr/src,
: right?), but it works for me and is close for folk music.
I've been debating applying this to the 5.3 errata branch. It is a
lot of extra work given the number of files that I touched to fix
other pccard related problems. I'm just not sure that it is worth it
when I can spend that time fixing other problems that I'm aware of in
current's pccard stack...
: I'm assuming this will make it into 5.4?
Yes.
Warner
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