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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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