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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:50:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Kelvin Pang <kelvin@uni.net.hk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Notebook
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971112154916.707I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3461D7FC.1860@uni.net.hk>

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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Kelvin Pang wrote:

> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> I've tried installing the FreeBSD on the notebook. I found that not too
> much PCMCIA card FreeBSD is supporting (only the PCMCIA card from IBM
> and National SemiConductor is supported as from the 2.2.2 release note).
> Are all PCMCIA cards from IBM are supported? I want to check whether the
> model number 72H5433 from IBM is supported. May you help? Thanks a lot.

Many more PCCARDs are supported under the PCCARD support in the release
and through the PAO package at http://www.jp.freebsd.org.  

> Besides, the PCMCIA card I'm currently using is Xircom. How can I, by
> any method, use it for FreeBSD? Pls suggest. Thanks a lot.

I don't think any Xircoms are supported since they refuse to release
programming specifications.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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