Date: 23 Nov 1996 12:32:01 +0100 From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Laptops. Is something missing? Message-ID: <87iv6xt5ce.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Doug White's message of Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:36:09 -0800 (PST) References: <87iv6xcaz0.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id>
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>> On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:36:09 -0800 (PST), Doug White
>> <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> said:
DW> On 20 Nov 1996, Peter Mutsaers wrote:
JH> Also, someone posted this URL a while back, which should help you out:
JH> http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/PAO/
>>
>> Aha, this URL is very useful. There is a complete pcmcia package with
>> many drivers. I have a Megahertz pcmcia ethernet card which is
>> supported. It is only surprising that this is not in the standard
>> (current) kernel since it would save a lot of people the work of
>> patching the kernel sources etc.
DW> The problem is that they have to remove most of the devices
DW> from the boot floppy to fit the pccard stuff on. So you end
DW> up with a really bare boot floppy that may not work for
DW> everyone because they had to remove the Seagate SCSI card
DW> driver and your FreeBSD disk is hanging off one of those.
DW> Second, the PAO floppies are built post-RELEASE by someone
DW> outside the FreeBSD developer's team, so when the CD goes to
DW> press the new boot floppy hasn't been rolled yet. Putting the
DW> last RELEASE's PAO floppy on the current RELEASE CDROM doesn't
DW> make sense when you have to do a net install anyway. :(
My problem is that I have a laptop without CDROM; I have to install
FreeBSD using the pcmcia ethernet card.
Alas the PAO floppy doesn't really work. My Megahertz ethernet card is
recognized, I can ifconfig it. But when I try to access the network
(ping or whatever) nothing appears on the net. The laptop thinks it is
sending to the ethernet correctly, but when I look from another
computer with tcpdump I see no activity at all.
I'm really dissapointed. On my main computer I had to install Linux
because of ISDN support. Now I thought that at least on my new laptop
I could run FreeBSD, but as it stands now Linux does support my pcmcia
ethernet card but FreeBSD does not. I was hoping I could finally have
a nice FreeBSD computer again. I really hope I can make PAO work on my
laptop.
I might want to try to build a kernel from PAO together with -current
on my main computer, then try this kernel on my laptop. Does anyone
have experience with this?
--
Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust is a good quality
plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | for other people to have
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