From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 24 22:23:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA29065 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:23:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA29046 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:23:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA13039; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:52:18 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702250622.QAA13039@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Ethernet options on 2.2-GAMMA In-Reply-To: <6892.856848493@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Feb 24, 97 09:28:13 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:52:17 +1030 (CST) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, wadlow@pilot.net, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > The PAO folks have extended the generic code to do alot of these things, > > but the code in -current (and 2.2) would work if we could find a clean > > way to hook things in sysinstall. Both Poul and I hacked on the code, > > Hmmm. If you were allowed to play supreme dictator in sysinstall for a day, > what would these hooks look like? ;) There would be a probe for the 'crd0' device having been found, and a prompt saying "please insert any PC-CARD devices to be used for the installation [Continue]". Sysinstall would then listen for card arrival events and play like pccardd until the user cancelled the dialog. The results of insertions/removals should be shown in a scrolling window somewhere. It should then rescan for media devices. This process should also be selectable from a menu somewhere. The relevant code in pccardd is actually fairly small, and the card database ought to compress well. It should be possible to be smarter (ie. handle installation with nonstandard cards), but that would require "insert the floppy containing configuration data for the card XYZZY", which would be More Of A Nuisance. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[