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Date:      Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:37:54 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Accton EN2216 PCMCIA
Message-ID:  <199803102037.NAA27620@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803102033.MAA19628@austin.polstra.com>
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.96L.980309194308.29869A-100000@alberti.unh.edu> <XFMail.980310092211.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> <199803101615.JAA25838@mt.sri.com> <199803102033.MAA19628@austin.polstra.com>

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> > 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?

How does the installation program know that ep0 is found?  It's a bit
more work, basically the same amount of work that Hosokawa has already
done for the PAO floppy.  However, I don't know how much use it would be
to fit it into sysinstall, instead of waiting for Son of Sysinstall.



Nate

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