From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 23 07:41:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA15031 for mobile-outgoing; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 07:41:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA15024 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 07:41:51 -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 IAA14794; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 08:41:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA20712; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 08:41:46 -0700 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 08:41:46 -0700 Message-Id: <199711231541.IAA20712@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eli Lazich Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO 2.2.5 In-Reply-To: References: <199711230605.XAA19910@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > OK, I understand all of this, now that prompts the question of how in > 2.2.5 you build the kernel to support PCMCIA. As I stated in earlier email, the FreeBSD boot floppy doesn't have generic PCMCIA support, but has support for 2 specific ethernet cards, which are serviced by zp/ze. > I found the GENERIC kernel > with the PCMCIA lines commented out, tried to build and got an error > because the generic (ze0/zp0) devices were still left in. Right, you can't mix the 'specific card' driver and 'generic PCMCIA' support. > I then tried to rebuild with those devices commented out to no avail. > I got an error toward the end of the make on the new kernel referring > to scsi drivers not being configured (I'll have to try again to get > the exact error messages). Because of this confusion, in the next releases of FreeBSD there are now 'PCCARD' config files that contain laptop support kernels. If you upgrade to 2.2.5-STABLE (post 2.2.5), that config file will exist which should give you a better idea what is supported in FreeBSD, as well as much better laptop support. > OOnce I get the new kernel built, where do valid pccard.conf and > pccard_ether etc... files get created. They are in /usr/src/etc, and must be edited/installed in /etc. (Some are already, but I believe pccard.conf is installed as pccard.conf.sample). Nate