Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:58:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Tony.Shoumack@rpmsolutions.com.au" <Tony.Shoumack@rpmsolutions.com.au> Cc: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Idiots guide to PCMCIA Message-ID: <199811240558.VAA02812@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:59:34 %2B1030." <01BE17BB.0F9B1EE0.tshoumack@rpmsolutions.com.au>
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> Hi there, > > Not sure which forum to post this .. here goes. > > As a newbie to FreeBSD (and loving it) I am keen to > get stuck into perpherial support and am wondering > if there is much on PCMCIA - as I see the handbook > notes "write documentation" as todo for this area. > > I think I really need more of an "Idiots Guide to PCMCIA" The simple, and unhelpful, answer is that PCMCIA is too complicated for idiots. The handbook section on PCCARD stuff is still empty because anybody that knows anything about our support is either too busy or too embarrassed to write anything about it. If you want to write documentation about peripheral support, that's one thing, and a very worthwhile exercise it is too. In that case, there's lots of stuff to do, and you ought to ask more questions to work out where your efforts might best be spent. If you want to work on writing support *code*, then you should talk to Garrett Wollman (wollman@freebsd.org), who is currently undertaking the not insubstantial task of renovating our ISA support. I'm sure that he has quite a lot of work that he could do with some help with, and if you feel you're able to pick stuff up quickly, there's plenty to do there. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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