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Date:      Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:16:53 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Brad Karp <karp@eecs.harvard.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2-STABLE boot floppy that supports PCMCIA ed card?
Message-ID:  <199712042216.PAA27562@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199712042017.PAA29884@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu>
References:  <199712042017.PAA29884@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu>

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> 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



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