Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:37:09 -0700 From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: is this supported list up-to-date? Message-ID: <15035.35269.447553.215102@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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Hi, I recently acquired a Dell CPx J laptop and am going to dual boot it with windoze '98. I've been trying to do some research into modems and NICs to buy that will be happy under FreeBSD. While searching the website for "laptop" I came upon the PAO pages where I found the following link of "3.x supported cards" http://home.jp.FreeBSD.org/~toshi/PAO3/SUPPORTED.CARDS It also mentions on the PAO page that "...the rest of PAO feature is presently commit to 5-current and 4-stable...". So am I to assume that this list of supported cards is still "currently supported" under 4.x-STABLE? Can somebody give me a quick synopsys of the laptop-ish features of -STABLE? I've been very much out of the mobile loop having never owned a laptop until now. Here's what I understand, please fill in the blanks: 1) There are two "flavors" of peripheral card for laptops. One is "pccard" (which used to be named PCMCIA??). The other is called CardBus. Correct? 2) I get the impression from groking some of the archives that there is little-to-zero support for any CardBus device in -STABLE. This is only found in -CURRENT. Correct? What are the technical differences between PCCARD and CardBus? thanks, -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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