Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:59:10 -0800 From: unsafe at any speed <erich@ucsd.edu> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is this supported list up-to-date? Message-ID: <3ABB8EEE.9040900@ucsd.edu> References: <15035.35269.447553.215102@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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John Reynolds~ wrote: > [...] > 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? 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? Correct again (zero support in -STABLE). > What are the technical differences between PCCARD and CardBus? Think of them like ISA and PCI cards--PCCards are 16-bit, and CardBus cards are 32-bit. /etc/defaults/pccard.conf is a good place to look for a list of supported cards in -STABLE. 3Com PCCard NICs are well supported, and there's a variety supported by the ed driver also. Modems generally work; just be careful not to get a Winmodem. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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