Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:12:10 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: Graham Bakay <graham@caulfield.bitmap.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRQ woes with a PCI to PCCard adapter for a Wireless PCCard Message-ID: <20010524101210.C23309@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200105241642.JAA29628@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:42:58AM -0700 References: <20010524092211.B23309@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200105241642.JAA29628@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:42:58AM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> Supposedly, some PCI cards do work (e.g., Cisco Aironet). How, I
> don't know, but they apparently do.
They aren't PCI<-->{PC-card, Cardbus} bridges. Instead they use an
alternative (cool!) technology which presents a PC-card as a native
PCI device. Apparently, a number of the cheap vendors are doing this
with their PCI wireless solutions as well, hence the PCI attachment in
the wi code.
-- Brooks
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