Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 18:37:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Louis Bertrand <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support for D-Link DFE-660? Message-ID: <20010106183746.C44092@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.20.0101060218500.18998-100000@grendel.bts>; from louis@bertrandtech.on.ca on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:20:03AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSO.4.20.0101060218500.18998-100000@grendel.bts>
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On Saturday, 6 January 2001 at 2:20:03 -0500, Louis Bertrand wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Does -CURRENT support the D-Link DFE-660 32-bit CardBus 10/100 ethernet?
> The card is a based on the Intel 21143/2 controller.
If you're interested in -CURRENT, you should be tracking
FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org. This list (-questions) specifically
excludes discussion of -CURRENT.
I suppose the answer is probably "suck it and see". There is some
CardBus support in -CURRENT, but you have to build a special kernel,
and you currently won't be able to use non-CardBus PCMCIA cards in
it. This is a temporary situation, but it should indicate that at the
moment CardBus is very much reserved for the brave and fearless. I
have CardBus cards, and I do a fair amount of work on this area, but I
haven't got round to building a CardBus kernel yet.
> I'm using 4.2-20010104-STABLE and pccardd reports: "No card in database
> for "(null)"("(null)")
Yes, it would. 4-STABLE doesn't support CardBus.
> More generally, how do I find out what hardware is supported?
There are a number of places. /usr/src/UPDATING contains an ongoing
list of changes to the branch. /usr/src/release/texts/HARDWARE.TXT
contains a list of supported hardware, but especially in -CURRENT it
might not be up to date.
Greg
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