From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 18 10:52:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4871414F79 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 10:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA90261; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:55:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:55:18 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Bill Paul Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pccard support still works with newbus, right? In-Reply-To: <199904181716.NAA11215@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Bill Paul wrote: > I'm currently working on a driver for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 > PCMCIA adapter, as part of a project for the COMET lab people here > at Columbia. Lucent has a PCMCIA and an "ISA" version of this adapter, > however the ISA version is really just a PCMCIA card fitted into an > add-in PCMCIA controller card that mounts in an ISA slot (i.e. something > that lets you plug PCMCIA devices into a desktop host that doesn't have > any built-in PCMCIA slots). This adapter card has a Vadem 469 chip on it > which, fortunately, is supported by our current pccard code. The system > I'm testing on is running 3.0-RELEASE and I'm reasonably confident my > code will work with 3.1-RELEASE too. As it stands now, I can get the > card probed and attached when I start pccardd, and everything seems > peachy. > > What I need to know is if anybody has tested the pccard support in > 4.0-CURRENT now that all the newbus stuff has been rolled in. If the > pccard support for the x86 still works under 'emulation' using an > ISA device shim, then that's fine. If not... well, then I suppoose > _I'm_ the one who's going to end up testing it. I think it works as well it did before but I haven't personally tested it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message