Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:30:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I have a CD-rom! Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971017082352.15560B-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> In-Reply-To: <199710170547.PAA01009@word.smith.net.au>
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On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Mike Smith wrote: >> [I got a CD-rom] > >Hah. This is what you get for not thinking ahead and buying a laptop >with one integrated. People laugh at me for recommending this; >"they're so BIG and HEAVY", but when I slap a CD in and blast them out >of the room, or suck stuff off one to save the day, well, who's >laughing THEN? 8) Yea, but aside from initial bootstrap of Win95 and stuff, I haven't needed one. So for the last two months you've been schlepping it around, and I haven't. The CDrom on my desktop PC has been sitting idle for months. Some people use them a lot, but for what I do they're rarely useful, so I'm still happy with[out] it. As soon as this unit (or a similar one) works, it's gone. >As well as this, we'll need the 'pccardc dumpcis' output and the >resource declarations from the top of your /etc/pccard.conf file. I >suspect that either the trailing space in your version string is wrong, >or that config index 0x9 requires resources you haven't made available. AAARgh, there it is: 'pccardc dumpcis'. I was sorta tired last night and couldn't remember this command. Tried to puzzle it out, but I know the problem I think: no man page? >Also, you will need the PAO patches to the aic driver (at least) to get >this working under mainstream FreeBSD. Let me know if you need help >with this. Hmm, that's a drag. Oh well, I've already decided to take it back and get a unit that's powered through the pccard port. I'd like to avoid having to make the jump to PAO if I can; the boss' laptop is somewhere else and I don't *really* want to spend a weekend getting the PAO stuff working, just so I can go do it again on his machine! :-/ Sigh. Thanks for the help. Brian
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