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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2001 16:24:54 -0500
From:      "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To:        Paul Halliday <dp@penix.org>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>, Jim King <jim@jimking.net>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCMCIA
Message-ID:  <20010502162454.A66203@peorth.iteration.net>
In-Reply-To: <3AF0762F.1C4E1E@penix.org>; from dp@penix.org on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:03:43PM -0400
References:  <006e01c0d33f$d6731300$524c8486@jking> <15088.25558.606765.29013@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20010502223240.A2190@freebie.demon.nl> <15088.28217.682317.833192@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3AF0762F.1C4E1E@penix.org>

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On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:03:43PM -0400, Paul Halliday scribbled:
| Andrew Gallatin wrote:
| > Wilko Bulte writes:
| >  > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:45:26PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
| >  > > Jim King writes:
| >  > >  > Before I go chasing down too many dead ends, has anybody been successful
| >  > >  > using PCMCIA?  My AS200 came with an ISA-PCMCIA adapter card.  My first
| >  > >  > attempt at using it was unsuccessful - it looked the PCMCIA card's
| >  > >  > identifier was not able to be read.
| >  > > I don't think anybody has tried PCMCIA on alpha or is working on it.
| >  > > I know NetBSD supports it..
| >  >
| >  > On Multia they support the builtin slots. I'm not sure about ISA-PCMCIA
| >  > bridge cards.
| > 
| > Actually, I could swear that they support those too.
| > 
| 	Give me a half hour and I will fire the one that I have back into my
| as200 and verify.

I have talked to Warner Losh about it and actually tested the PCMCIA
code on my PWS500au.  It does not work.  Warner said that the Alpha
ISA stuff is a little too much work.

In short, PCMCIA does not work on FreeBSD/Alpha.
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