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Date:      Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:33:17 -0800
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Accton EN2216 PCMCIA
Message-ID:  <199803102033.MAA19628@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803101615.JAA25838@mt.sri.com>
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.96L.980309194308.29869A-100000@alberti.unh.edu> <XFMail.980310092211.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> <199803101615.JAA25838@mt.sri.com>

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In article <199803101615.JAA25838@mt.sri.com>,
Nate Williams  <nate@mt.sri.com> wrote:

> FreeBSD 2.2.5 will work fine, but there is no 'boot floppy' support at
> this time, so if you need to use the ethernet card for installation, you
> can't.

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I'll ask anyway.  Why
can't we get boot floppy support for all the pccard devices simply by
doing this:

* Add the card0, pcic0, and pcic1 devices to GENERIC.
* Add pccardd and pccard.conf to the built-in install filesystem.
* Add code in sysinstall to start up pccardd at initialization time.

Why wouldn't this work?

John
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth

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