From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Apr 26 23:25:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1F7837B435 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 23:25:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3R6PBH00852; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 00:25:12 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3R6PAb53589; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 00:25:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 00:24:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020427.002445.111988583.imp@village.org> To: Aaron.Siegel@attbi.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Database Entry D-Link DFE-670TXD From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3CC9F5DD.1080609@attbi.com> References: <3CC9F5DD.1080609@attbi.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <3CC9F5DD.1080609@attbi.com> Aaron J Siegel 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: : ". 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message