Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:23:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Steve Sizemore <steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> Cc: Brian Handy <handy@sag.lmsal.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO and CVSup Message-ID: <199807222323.QAA02163@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Jul 1998 15:21:35 PDT." <19980722152135.B25723@cmpharm.ucsf.edu>
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> > Well, lots of messages to the lists and newsgroups suggested that PAO > is a "good thing", so I did install it right away. I guess that the > two things that I really need from PAO are PC card support, in > particular for the Accton ethernet card, and APM support. Neither of > those things seem to be available in the GENERIC kernel, which I just > built and tried. Of course, if there's some way to turn those on, then > I'd be willing to forego PAO, I guess... That's because the GENERIC kernel is designed for desktops. If you were to peruse the handbook and the LINT kernel, you would find the requisite information to enable APM and PCCARD support. All of the Accton cards I'm aware of are NE2000 clones; I was using 2216 for some time with good results. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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