From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 10:18:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8378016A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:18:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu (vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu [129.25.6.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE0743D2B for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:18:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jsmith@drexel.edu) Received: from drexel.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1])hBAIICGe000835 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:18:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jsmith@drexel.edu) Message-ID: <3FD76363.5010105@drexel.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:18:11 -0500 From: Justin Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031209 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Question and request X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:18:15 -0000 I have a Toshiba Portege 3500 tablet PC and would like to install FreeBSD on it alongside Windows. It has a PCMCIA CDROM drive and the only version of Linux that recognizes it is Mandrake (my least favorite distribution). Although the current Linux kernel supports this drive (evidently), the other distributions do not include drivers for it in the version of the kernel used for installs. Other Linuxen boot but cannot find the CDROM afterwards. 1. My question: does FreeBSD 5.2 support it? 2. My request (if the answer to 1 is yes): Can the kernel used in the install CD's (when they are made up) contain this support?