From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Mar 2 12:34:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04704 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:34:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04696 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:34:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.4) with UUCP id UAA22109; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:32:34 GMT Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:22:19 GMT X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199803021955.MAA21832@mt.sri.com> References: <34FAB450.A404A17D@cmg.nl> <199803021632.JAA20427@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:23:19 +0000 To: Nate Williams From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: PCMCIA card Cc: Mike Crawfurd , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 7:55 pm +0000 2/3/98, Nate Williams wrote: >> >No, combo-cards are not supported by FreeBSD. >> >> ... but you might get the modem to work by pretending it isn't >>multifunction. > >It depends on the card. As someone already pointed out, this particular >card has the modem as the first entry in the combo-card, but with other >combo cards you might have the reverse experience. Spending a bunch of >money for a dual-purpose card when you can only use one function (at >this time) seems a bit silly, unless you are willing to write the code >to do the multi-function thing. True. I use a GreyCell combo card which has the ethernet first. Hosokawa-san is looking into multifunction cards, but many of them (possibly including the Xircom) don't follow the specs too well. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message