From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Mar 10 12:38:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20381 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:38:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA20337 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:38:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA10797; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:37:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA27620; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:37:54 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:37:54 -0700 Message-Id: <199803102037.NAA27620@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Polstra Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accton EN2216 PCMCIA In-Reply-To: <199803102033.MAA19628@austin.polstra.com> References: <199803101615.JAA25838@mt.sri.com> <199803102033.MAA19628@austin.polstra.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > FreeBSD 2.2.5 will work fine, but there is no 'boot floppy' support at > > this time, so if you need to use the ethernet card for installation, you > > can't. > > I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I'll ask anyway. Why > can't we get boot floppy support for all the pccard devices simply by > doing this: > > * Add the card0, pcic0, and pcic1 devices to GENERIC. > * Add pccardd and pccard.conf to the built-in install filesystem. > * Add code in sysinstall to start up pccardd at initialization time. > > Why wouldn't this work? How does the installation program know that ep0 is found? It's a bit more work, basically the same amount of work that Hosokawa has already done for the PAO floppy. However, I don't know how much use it would be to fit it into sysinstall, instead of waiting for Son of Sysinstall. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message