From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jun 11 13:29: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from doninha.ip.pt (doninha.ip.pt [195.23.13.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 354D737B9C6 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 13:28:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.arriaga@ip.pt) Received: (qmail 4205 invoked by uid 1037); 11 Jun 2000 20:28:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.ip.pt) (194.79.69.132) by doninha2.ip.pt with SMTP; 11 Jun 2000 20:28:42 -0000 Received: from ip.pt (sitewizard.ip.pt [195.23.13.97]) by mail2.ip.pt with SMTP id VAA63875; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 21:28:42 +0100 (WEST) From: "Manuel Arriaga" Reply-To: m.arriaga@ip.pt To: "Sean O'Connell" Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:30:50 GMT Subject: Re: [newbie] Anyone using a Thinkpad 760ED / Xircom card? X-Mailer: DMailWeb Web to Mail Gateway 2.0p, http://netwinsite.com/top_mail.htm Message-id: <3943f6fa.79bf.0@ip.pt> X-User-Info: 195.23.160.53 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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