Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 00:24:45 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: Aaron.Siegel@attbi.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Database Entry D-Link DFE-670TXD Message-ID: <20020427.002445.111988583.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <3CC9F5DD.1080609@attbi.com> References: <3CC9F5DD.1080609@attbi.com>
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Aaron J Siegel <Aaron.Siegel@attbi.com> writes:
: Hello
: I just purchased a new very cheap 16 bit PCMCIA card, D-Link
: DFE-670TXD. Here is the entry in my pccard.conf
:
: #D-Link DFE-670TXD
: card "D-Link" "DFE-670TXD"
: config auto "ed" ?
: insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
: insert /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
:
: It works, no problems (yet).
:
: I am finding one of the big disadvantages with FreeBSD is find
: information on support hardware. It would be nice to have a site, part
: of the FreeBSD site, which listed supported hardware.
I've often thought that for pccard this is very much needed.
: I am thinking it
: can start simple, in the mailing list. When someone gets a new device to
: work, which is not listed they post a message with a subject "NewDev:
: <the device name>". It can get adopt a form similar to the problem
: reports. All some has to do to find information on hared is do a search
: of the achieves.
Maybe that would work, maybe not. Why don't you setup something like
that, and then get people to use it. It would certainly help! It
couldn't hurt :-).
Warner
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