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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:41:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Motonori Shindo <mshindo@ascend.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: Akia Tornado TX233
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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Motonori Shindo wrote:

> Akia Tornado TX233 doen't come with any PCMCIA Ethernet card. I tried
> the following two cards which I already had in hand:
> 
>  1) IBM's Ethernet II 
>  2) 3Com's EtherLink III (3C589C Rev.D)) 

OOOoooh, I see now.  Dooh!  <:-)

> > > One thing I'm not sure is that whether CardBus capability (Akia
> > > Tornado TX233 does support CardBus!) doesn't affect the PCMCIA
> > > Ethernet on FreeBSD or not.
> > 
> > That is a good thing, actually; I've had a hell of a time getting Win95
> > machines with CardBus to pick up Ethernet cards.
> 
> I started to install Win95 (OSR2.1) back to the machine. (Like most of
> the *BSD people do, I have already wiped out the pre-installed
> Win95:-)) Then I found that Akia Tornado TX233's PCMCIA doesn't work
> with the stock Win95 PCMCIA driver. Presumably due to a CardBus
> capability, it does require a newer version of PCMCIA/CardBus driver
> in a floppy disk that comes with the box.

Yup.  Darn TI.

> I haven't figured out what PCMCIA contoller it has, but now I feel
> that I need a newer PCMCIA driver to get FreeBSD to work with Tornado
> TX233. What is the status of the PCMCIA/CardBus driver development in
> FreeBSD? 

I don't know, you'd have to ask the PAO people.  They're on the front line
vs. the stuff that comes with the system.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major