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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh>
Message-Id: <199601232211.OAA22552@freefall.freebsd.org>
To: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: PCMCIA stuff.
Cc: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp
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Well, I got past my stupidity with the patch flags and successfully built a
kernel with the PCMCIA stuff.  Some first impressions:

The workings of `pccardsetup' need to be re-thought somewhat.
When the card attached is an ethernet card, and you've got configuration
data for it in /etc/sysconfig, you really need to start it *early*
or be hosed.  Unfortuantely, most of the work is done by pccardd
which runs in the background, and is hence hard to syncronize with.
My temporary hack is to start `pccardsetup' before anything else (except
for the mounts, of course) and then wait 10 seconds for it to finish
initializing the ethernet card before continuing.  There's definitely got
to be a better way than that! :-)

Another problem I ran into was that it wasn't clear just which drivers
were now obsolete and which weren't.  You should document, for example,
the fact that your former ze0 device (for example) will be ed0 under
the new system.

Finally, I was unable to have the pccard stuff recognise my US Robotics
14.4K Fax modem card and the almost complete lack of documentation on the
format of the pccard database file pretty much prevents me from crafting
one that works.  I've tried all the obvious stuff, cloning the
USR 28.8K entry and adjusting the mfr and model strings to match
my card, but I still get `unknown type 209' on startup and am
also somewhat unsure as to how to get it to configure itself as sio1
(I have only one built-in serial port on the laptop).  Any clues
would be most appreciated as this is the modem I'd like to use from my
Hotel room at USENIX! :-)

Even in ALPHA form, I still have to say that this looks pretty
slick!  Congrats to all involved.

					Jordan