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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: What PCMCIA ethernet card supported/recommended?
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>     MS> At this point in time, installing with a PCCARD ethernet card
>     MS> is problematic, however once you have you system up and going,
>     MS> the above is a perfectly workable solution.
> 
> Why? Hasn't the generic kernel on the boot floppy the supported PCCARD
> ethernet cards configured in?

No, because there is no 'generic' support for PCCARD ethernet cards.
There is specific support for 'known' cards, but the current pccardd
daemons and such have not been very well abstracted out to live in the
install tools.  (No offense to Tatsumi-san).


Nate