Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:16:28 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Andrew Back <andy@smokebelch.org> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Release advice. Message-ID: <20030115181628.11B7E5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:21:04 GMT." <20030115091430.Y81485-100000@plum.flirble.org>
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> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:21:04 +0000 (GMT) > From: Andrew Back <andy@smokebelch.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi, > > Some time ago I tried getting a PCMCIA WLAN card working via a PCI -> > PCMCIA bridge under FreeBSD4.5-RELEASE. Despite numerous attempts to get > it working, various patches and assistance from people on this list, all > my attempts failed. > > I'm about to try and get the same hardware configuration working again, > and wondered whether it would be best to do that under 4.7-RELEASE, or > wait for 5.0-RELEASE. It will probably work for either 4.7 or 5.0. The support for PCI ->PCMCIA bridges was heavily re-worked between 4.4 and 4.7 and is pretty solid. The entire CardBus support software was re-done for 5.0 with NEWCARD. If ACPI works, the card should be fine. If not, it probably will still work. And OLDCARD is still available in V5 for system that lack CardBus hardware (mostly very old laptops). The down-side to V5 is that it has a LOT of new stuff in it and it's clearly not as clean as everyone would wish. The changes are HUGE in many, many critical sub-systems. Things like the new SMP code, ACPI support, and GEOM impact the most basic parts of the kernel. I have been running 5.0 release candidates for some time and they are running pretty well, but they are not close to the robustness of 4.7. Maybe by 5.1 they will be. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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