From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Dec 4 14:34:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA10703 for mobile-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA10697 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:34:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA19588; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:16:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA27562; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:16:53 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:16:53 -0700 Message-Id: <199712042216.PAA27562@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brad Karp Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2-STABLE boot floppy that supports PCMCIA ed card? In-Reply-To: <199712042017.PAA29884@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu> References: <199712042017.PAA29884@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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