From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Mar 10 12:44:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21740 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21682 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:43:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA00480; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 21:42:45 +0100 (CET) To: John Polstra cc: nate@mt.sri.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accton EN2216 PCMCIA In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:33:17 PST." <199803102033.MAA19628@austin.polstra.com> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 21:42:45 +0100 Message-ID: <478.889562565@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199803102033.MAA19628@austin.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: >In article <199803101615.JAA25838@mt.sri.com>, >Nate Williams wrote: > >> 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? Without even checking I'd say of the top of my head that it doesn't fit on the floppy. I may be wrong on this, but I doubt it :-) Otherwise it would work, yes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message