Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:27:03 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accton EN2216 PCMCIA Message-ID: <199803102127.OAA28214@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199803102055.MAA20002@austin.polstra.com> References: <199803102049.NAA27789@mt.sri.com> <199803102055.MAA20002@austin.polstra.com>
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> > > I don't know. Can't it just try to use the selected device at the > > > appropriate time? If it's not there, it will get an ENODEV or > > > some such thing. > > > > How does it know which device is there to use? There are *LOTS* of > > different ethernet cards supported in the GENERIC kernel. > > True, but there aren't very many that come in the PC-Card form factor. > Anyway: sysinstall must already have some way to figure out what > devices are in the system, right? Yep, it gets them from the kernel. However, the pccardd probes are user-land probes. > > > think it would be worthwhile. It's a major pain trying to install > > > on a system (like the ThinkPad 560) that doesn't have a CD-ROM > > > drive. > > > > That's what lap-link cables and 3Com cards are for. :) :) > > You can install FreeBSD over a lap-link cable?! Hmm, is that the > funky TCP/IP over the lpt interface thingy? I'd forgotten about it. Yep. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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