Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:25:55 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compatibility list Message-ID: <199903090625.IAA00925@greenpeace.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Mon, 08 Mar 1999 16:04:32 PST." <61250.920937872@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <61250.920937872@zippy.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > I have 3 laptops (with various pccards) on which I test FreeBSD on a > fairly regular basis, and by all appearances the FreeBSD PCCARD > support has continued its gradual de-evolution process in our latest > releases, things now having gotten to the point where even the > mainstream stuff doesn't work anymore. For an example of what I mean, > I just tried to bring up 3.1-RELEASE on a fairly standard Digital > HiNote laptop with 3COM 3C589D PCCARD NIC and it failed to work at > all. If you power the laptop up with the card inserted, it says > "Driver allocation failed for ep0" (or words to that effect, the box > not sitting in front of me at the moment) and if you try a > hot-insertion, it either completely fails to notice the insertion > event at all (this now appearing to be a general problem with pccardd) > or it notices but still fails to do anything useful with it. Same > setup used to work in 2.2.8, sadly enough. For me, this works rather well (the Ethernet card is ed0, though). 1 out of +-30 inserts will not work. I have problems with a ropey modem whose SIO device is not probed properly. I know its hardware, because a Psion DACOM Gold Card (the real McCoy) works fine. > At its current rate of progress(?), I predict that the code will be > non-functional enough to simply shoot dead in about 6 more months, > allowing us to finally stop pretending that the "mainline" FreeBSD > product supports laptop peripherals at all. I can only hope that the > PAO people continue to track the state of FreeBSD's mainline releases > so that we can at least point people in that direction for the > "optional laptop support" add-ons. Bah, Oh Well, etc. That will be a sad day. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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