Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:31:02 -0700 (PDT) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: wkb@freebie.demon.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: imp@village.org, grog@lemis.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/texts/alpha RELNOTES.TXT Message-ID: <20000905173102.2860437B43F@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000905192425.A1189@freebie.demon.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Sep 5, 2000 07:24:26 pm"
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> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:42:56AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <20000905153145.A639@freebie.demon.nl> Wilko Bulte writes: > > : Hm, partly maybe. For example all the EISA boards are a no-no on Alpha > > : altogether. PCMCIA cards same story. I'd rather go for a 'yes, this > > : works' than a 'anybodys guess' type of document. > > > > pcmcia could be made to work on alpha w/o a huge amount of hassle, but > > NEWCARD should make that easier. One should remove them from the > > supported list of hardware on the alpha until someone undertakes that > > hassle. > > Thing is there is only one Alpha that I know of that has PCMCIA slots. And > that is the venerable Multia. And maybe the 'Alphabook' but I never saw one. There exist such things as ISA to PCMCIA and PCI to PCMCIA bus adapter cards. If you buy an ISA or PCI WaveLAN/IEEE card, what you're really getting is one of these bus adapters with a PCMCIA WaveLAN/IEEE module. So if you're worried about testing PCMCIA with alpha hardware, don't be. :) -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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