Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:30:50 GMT From: "Manuel Arriaga" <m.arriaga@ip.pt> To: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [newbie] Anyone using a Thinkpad 760ED / Xircom card? Message-ID: <3943f6fa.79bf.0@ip.pt>
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Hi Sean, >I recommend using a pretty recent snapshot of -STABLE >(ftp://releng4.freebsd.org .. slow for you, but I believe >there a mirror sites in europe) as there have been several >(incremental) improvements to pccard support. Ha, I will look for a mirror and download it; thanks. >> >FreeBSD doesn't yet support Cardbus cards. This will hopefully >> >be rectified over the summer/fall of this year. >> >> I see, but could I use the pcmcia_cs package for that? I know that >> FreeBSD can run Linux applications under emulation, but does it work >> for the drivers and the such, too? >> Thanks for any tip, > >Unfortunately, I don't think so. Then I am out of luck, it seems... :-( I wouldn't mind buying a non-Cardbus card instead, but the problem is that my Thinkpad is known for *seriously* overheating, and I thought that perhaps the lower power consumptions of Cardbus-compliant cards would help reduce the heat... Cheers, Manuel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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