From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 22 5:40:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7BC1528A for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 05:40:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA36854; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 14:39:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 14:39:54 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Jamie Bowden Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cardbus and FXP Message-ID: <19991122143954.U22782@lucifer.bart.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from ragnar@sysabend.org on Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 05:07:26AM -0800 Organisation: bART Internet Services B.V. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [19991122 14:15], Jamie Bowden (ragnar@sysabend.org) wrote: > >I asked on -mobile, but didn't get an answer, so now I'm asking here. I >Have a Dell Latitude CPiR, and am thinking about getting the Intel cardbus >82559 based ethercard for this machine. What I want to know is, once >cardbus is rolled into 3.x, or when 4.x is fianlly release, will the FXP >driver be rolled into the cardbus framework for support of this card? > >I really don't want to buy the 3c589c just for ether on this box, I prefer >the intel cards, and am willing to wait. Considering the amount of work Warner(imp) still has to do on the cardbus support I sincerely doubt he will be able to get it done for 4.0. Work IS underway though. And when the support is there, adding drivers into that framework shouldn't be a problem. But that's my idea/opinion and I may be totally off here. Cheers, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator bART Internet Services / Tel: +31 - (0) 10 - 240 39 70 VIA NET.WORKS Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message