From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 20 16:30:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4048714D38 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:29:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id QAA04215; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:29:36 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA20941; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:29:35 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.237]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id QAA28611; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:28:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3887A973.F632B014@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:33:55 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with PCMCIA Cards References: <3885D9A4.8092A0F9@softweyr.com> <200001191626.JAA26180@harmony.village.org> <38863FC9.7B66BD3C@softweyr.com> <20000119201008.D33989@jade.chc-chimes.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 03:50:49PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Mmm... Good point. This means updating code and compiling a new kernel > > every time Joe's hardware company sticks their own name on a generic OEM > > PCI or PCCard, doesn't it? I love this industry. > > Do the above and try and figure out and track down if the marketing information > matches what actually shows up on the product, now find out if it works exactly > the same or if there is some stupid quirk that Joe's Hardware added to the > chip.... Welcome to Bill Paul's hell. :-> I know, Bill, I know. I used to work for a company that made (well, OEM'd) PCMCIA cards, and made one of a very few PCMCIA-based routers in the world. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message