From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Mar 19 9:26:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ix.rain.fr (ix.rain.fr [194.51.3.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D381337B719 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:26:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tfischer@rain.fr) Received: from rain.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ix.rain.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2JHPTb39475; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:25:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from tfischer@rain.fr) Message-ID: <3AB64109.91E4D7E7@rain.fr> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:25:29 +0100 From: Tom Fischer Organization: France Telecom Transpac X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Dieringer Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cardbus controller support (don't care how stable)... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I think that NEWCARD config file says it's broken only as a warning to use at your own risk- it actually does work. I've been using it on my Toshiba Tecra with no problems whatsoever (aside from not being able to get the modem part of my Xircom CBEM56G-100 ethernet/modem combo running). Of course, YMMV depending on your hardware... cheers, tom tfischer@rain.fr Martin Dieringer wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > > Sean Chittenden writes: > > > If not, any recommendations on an OS that does have cardbus > > > controller support? I use FreeBSD for everything (cluster of servers, > > > desktop, old laptop, etc), but my new laptop for work only has a > > > cardbus controller. Thoughts? -sc > > > > -current (5.x) has cardbus support. I don't know how much of it > > works, but I'm pretty sure you can get by if you're willing to do some > > poking around. If that won't work for you, both OpenBSD and NetBSD > > have cardbus support. > > I tried openbsd for that reason. the 575BT works VERY fine with it, > but there is no java and too few ports, and the security got on my > nerves... > > so I upgraded to -current which currently doesn't work with cardbus > because it seems to be broken at the moment (at least the NEWCARD > config file says so) and sofar I run GENERIC. seems stable enough > for me to wait for the re-enabled NEWCARD > > martin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message