Date: Mon, 16 Sep 96 14:23:42 PST From: BRETT_GLASS@ccgate.infoworld.com To: hardware@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: PCMCIA, APM, 3C562 Message-ID: <9608168429.AA842902427@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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Have given up on OS/2 for my laptop.... It seems to be crashing and failing big-time under the Merlin gamma, and my bug reports have been utterly ignored. So, I'd like to try FreeBSD on it. But first, some questions: How good is the PCMCIA support in FreeBSD? Will I be able to swap cards? Is APM supported? Will the system (including PCMCIA) be able to survive a suspend/resume cycle without "freaking out" or getting too busy to use due to missed items in /etc/crontab? (Come to think of it, how DOES it handle missed items in /etc/crontab?) Is there a sync on suspend? If the battery dies during a suspend (common on many laptops that suspend when the battery gets low), is the filesystem left "clean" and ready for a reboot? Finally, there doesn't appear to be a driver for my 3C562 Modem/Ethernet combo card. As I understand it, this card is really just a 3Com Ethernet adapter and a modem (with standard UART) sharing an IRQ. Is there a driver available? Would it be possible to construct one by creating a "hybrid" driver that probed for the card, grabbed the one interrupt, and linked to routines from the existing sio and 3Com PCMCIA Ethernet drivers? --Brett
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