Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 23:37:11 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.com.au> To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <3740228F.7D540DAB@camtech.com.au> References: <199905170549.WAA33075@freefall.freebsd.org>
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A lot of laptop users are going to be annoyed by not being able to install FreeBSD using their PCMCIA Xircom card. I have already had one person at work give up the idea of installing FreeBSD on his laptop and put RedHat 5.2 on their instead as it supports installing via his Xircom. On this particular laptop there was no floppy drive so the only way to install was via the network or a CD-ROM and he wasn't keen enough to buy a CD-ROM just to see what FreeBSD is like. So the project should aim to have the 'card' controller and various PCMCIA cards in GENERIC as soon as possible. Maybe this cant happen until the kernel is more modular. Excuse me if I'm stating the obvious but laptop users need this soon. "David E. O'Brien" wrote: > > obrien 1999/05/16 22:49:48 PDT > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_3) > sys/i386/conf GENERIC > Log: > Don't compile the `xe' driver by default. Unlike the zp and ze drivers, > xe requires the `card' controler to be defined. And unlike the ed, ep and > fe drivers, the xe driver doesn't support a non-PCMCIA NIC. > > Revision Changes Path > 1.143.2.14 +2 -2 src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message -- /=======================================================================\ | Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au | \=======================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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