From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 12:57:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EFB337B405 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 42737 invoked by uid 1111); 8 Apr 2002 19:57:29 -0000 Date: 8 Apr 2002 12:57:29 -0700 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:57:29 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: William Gnadt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status of *BSD Cardbus support Message-ID: <20020408195729.GA39615@helios.dub.net> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 at 15:58:21 -0400, William Gnadt wrote: > Hi: > > I've been planning to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Inspiron 4000 for some > time now. > > However, I noticed that there is NO cardbus support at present in > FreeBSD: That's not completely correct. While there isn't in the RELENG_4 (-STABLE) branch, there is in HEAD (-CURRENT). > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html > > I have a "Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56" that would be > great to use with this laptop. (At least the network card -- I don't > know if the modem is a winmodem.) > > Is there any type of support for this card? Or, should I pick up a > 16-bit card to replace it? Anyone have pointers regarding cardbus > support on the other *BSDs? (Again, documentation available via the > web is sparse.) You have two options. 1) install -CURRENT and fight through the frequent bugs and instability (after all, it *is* the development branch) and maybe use your card, or 2) buy a non-cardbus card and run -RELEASE or -STABLE like a good FreeBSD newbie should so they can get the help they need :-) - jim -- jim mock http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message