From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Oct 29 07:40:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA22613 for mobile-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 07:40:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA22608 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 07:40:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA01783; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:40:15 -0700 (MST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA11343; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:40:12 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:40:12 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199710291540.IAA11343@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: Patrick Gardella , Nate Williams , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dont need PAO? In-Reply-To: <199710291445.BAA00996@word.smith.net.au> References: <199710291445.BAA00996@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > As a reasonably new user of FreeBSD on my laptop, I thought you *had* > > to use PAO to get the pcmcia cards to work right. Is this not the case? > > I'd love to get away from it, but I need my cards (ethernet and modem)! > > Nope. Life is just fine without it. > > (This is not to be taken as knocking the Nomads, who have done a lot of > good stuff for the cause...) Right, most of the recent work I did was in-directly related to the Nomad work. They very often point me in the right direction of a fix, or in many cases have *really* good ideas (the Linker set one was great). We wouldn't have anywhere near the support for cards today if it wasn't for the Nomads. Nate