From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jul 23 10:50:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26639 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:50:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sag.lmsal.com (sag.lmsal.com [192.68.162.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA26624 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:50:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from handy@sag.lmsal.com) Received: from localhost by sag.lmsal.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19May98-0849AM) id AA19783; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:50:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:50:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Handy To: Nate Williams Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO and CVSup In-Reply-To: <199807231605.KAA25432@mt.sri.com> Message-Id: X-Files: The truth is out there Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Nate Williams wrote: >> How about creating a "LAPTOP" configuration as part of the stock >> distribution? That would help people find what they want, and could probably >> be made workable on most machines. > >I created a 'PCCARD' config file a long time ago (November of last >year), but the kernel is not built as part of the distribution. Is it >that PCCARD is just a bad name? I think the usual problem is just that there's no PCCARD kernel, so for certain combinations of h/w people can't use the boot floppy to do an install over the network. (I think JDP had this problem, I'm sure a few others have.) So ... it might solve some woes to supply a PCCARD boot floppy. Of course I say this without fully thinking through how all the pccard_* stuff in /etc would be handled, haven't had to fiddle with that stuff for a while. I would be so bold as to have a look at this in a week or two, once I get moved back up to Bozeman. It CAN'T be that hard to do. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message