From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jun 25 17:16:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA11978 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:16:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA11936 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA01239; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 18:12:52 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 18:12:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199606260012.SAA01239@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: "Brett Glass" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gateway Solo with ATAPI CD-ROM: How to install? In-Reply-To: <9605258357.AA835746963@ccgate.infoworld.com> References: <9605258357.AA835746963@ccgate.infoworld.com> Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Am now attempting to get FreeBSD onto a Gateway Solo laptop with an ATAPI > CD-ROM. I'm working with a 2.2 snapshot disk, and am not getting very > far! There's a mention of an ATAPI install disk in the pamphlet in the > front, but no such image on the disk! When I installed by copying from > the CD-ROM to a DOS partition, I still couldn't get the CD-ROM to > work. I know nothing about this. > Nor could I get the 3Com 3C562 Ethernet PCMCIA/Modem card, or even a > standard modem card, to work so that I could bring in CD-ROM code from the > Net. What's the best way to get up and running? This system will need > CD-ROM and PCMCIA support at the very least. The 3C562 won't be supported in FreeBSD anytime in the near future (unless the Nomad's know something I don't know). The current PC-CARD code doesn't support multiple interrupts/card, and I don't believe it supports sharing interrupts at all. Also note that the documentation and such for the PCCARD support is *very* weak right now, and probably won't get better in the next few weeks as the rivers are starting to come down and fly-fishing is sounding more fun than PC-CARD hacking. But, the code in -current should support your modem if you can get past the non-documentation issue. Read the man pages on pccardc/pccardd, and look at /etc/pccard.conf.sample and you *should* be able to get jump-started. Sorry about that, but keeping my sanity intrudes on getting this stuff working! :) :) Nate