Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:16:53 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Brad Karp <karp@eecs.harvard.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2-STABLE boot floppy that supports PCMCIA ed card? Message-ID: <199712042216.PAA27562@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199712042017.PAA29884@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu> References: <199712042017.PAA29884@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu>
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> Trouble is, I have a Linksys Ethernet combo card that appears to have a > different CIS tuple than most people's Linksys cards. The standard PAO > pccard.conf doesn't recognize it. I had to tweak the entry in my 2.2.X-PAO > systems to have the card recognized, after which it worked swimmingly. > > I have a new 380D (i.e., it has no FreeBSD on it at all), and I want to install > 2.2-STABLE (a SNAP as of 12/4). But I find that: > > - the 12/4 boot.flp from 2.2-STABLE won't recognize my Linksys PCMCIA > Ethernet card at all The standard FreeBSD boot floppy only recognizes the 3Com and the IBM cards. It doesn't have the PCCARD support built in. > - the 2.2.2-PAO boot floppy has a pccard.conf compiled into it that > doesn't recognize my Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet card ;( > - there's no 2.2.5-PAO boot floppy available yet ;( > So, at the risk of repeating the November question: is there really no boot > floppy that recognizes PCMCIA ed cards? How hard could it be to make 2.2- > STABLE support this? The boot floppy support in PAO is (was) not released, so building a PCCARD boot floppy is not currently possible w/out lots of work. Nate
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