Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 12:36:38 -0400 From: "James F. Hranicky" <jfh@cise.ufl.edu> To: Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running 3.2 -- do I need PAO? Message-ID: <19990726163638.B3832D810@cluster0.cise.ufl.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net> of "Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:02:02 EDT." <3.0.6.32.19990722120202.02d56920@cstone.net>
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Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net> wrote: > At 12:58 PM 7/22/99 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > >If I'm running 3.2 (and/or 3.2-stable) do I need the PAO patches? > > This is definitely a question I'm very interested as well. I'm running a > Quantex laptop with only FreeBSD on it - but I'll be damned if I can get > the PC cards to work. <sigh> Oh well, back to hacking on it while at > work...:) I had to use the PAO install floppies to install 3.2-STABLE-19990721. Once that was up, I still couldn't get the pcic device recognized on boot with stock -stable, as I wasn't able to tell either the kernel or the visual config that my pcic was on irq3 at 0xfcfc. I took a chance on grabbing the PAO dist and patching the STABLE kernel, and voila, the new kernel could see my pcic device. However, the stock pccardd still wouldn't work, so I used the PAO one, and was able to get my Linksys 10/100, and my Motorolla Montana modem up just fine. Not that I would ask for support on such a configuration, but it did work :-> Are there plans to add any PAO code to the stock dist, or at least try to duplicate it's functionality? Being able to use the visual kernel config tool to specify where the pcic is, not to mention being able to use common PCMCIA cards with the install floppies, really is a big win. I was really hoping that the functionality of PAO had made it into the stock dist since I last installed FBSD 2.2.5 . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jim Hranicky, Senior SysAdmin UF/CISE Department | | E314E CSE Building Phone (352) 392-1499 | | jfh@cise.ufl.edu http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jfh | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Assume nearly everything on the 'Net is a HOAX unless proven otherwise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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