Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 16:00:23 -0700 From: Thomas Pfenning <thomaspf@microsoft.com> To: "'Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account'" <babbleon@mercury.interpath.com>, "'freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Working PCMCIA/CD-ROM/Modem/ethernet? Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-81-MSG-961013230023Z-46431@mail4.microsoft.com>
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Hi, I have made a good experience with the IBM Credit Card Adapter Ethernet II. The good thing about this card is that it is actually supported with a standalone driver ze0 on the boot disk. The driver is somewhat slow but you only need it for bootstrapping. Once you have FreeBSD installed and configure the PCCARD drivers it works very nicely with the ed driver which is rock solid and supports multicast. Performance on my laptop is around 800KB/s which is not bad for a PCcard. For pccard suport have a look at http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/PAO/. In case that matters for you, it also works out of the box with WinNT4.0 and Win95:-) >-----Original Message----- >From: Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account >[SMTP:babbleon@mercury.interpath.com] >Sent: Sunday, October 13, 1996 9:41 AM >To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org >Subject: Working PCMCIA/CD-ROM/Modem/ethernet? > > >I have a laptop. Not wanting to repeat earlier mistakes, I want to get >a PCMCIA cards and devices that will WORK with my o/s of choice without >having to go to a lot of extra bother. > >So . . . > >I have a "one Type III or two type II" PCMCIA on my machine, a >Prostar 9400. > >Questions . . . > > - Are there differences in PCMCIA slots on the machine that might > possibly render the FreeBSD drivers unusable regardless? > - If so, how can I find out if they wil work? > - What versions of FreeBSD support what cards? > >And, most centrally, > > - I'd like to know of the exact brands being used by anybody who is > actually running FreeBSD (preferably production versions) with a > PCMCIA card or cards with the following devices attached: > - CD-ROM (essential) > - 28.8 modem > - ethernet > >Thanks. > >-- >Brian T. Schellenberger, the Man from Babble-On. > >"Someday I'll get around to importing all the cool quotes from my other >account's .sig files." http://mercury.interpath.com/~babbleon
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