Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 21:42:45 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accton EN2216 PCMCIA Message-ID: <478.889562565@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:33:17 PST." <199803102033.MAA19628@austin.polstra.com>
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In message <199803102033.MAA19628@austin.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: >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? Without even checking I'd say of the top of my head that it doesn't fit on the floppy. I may be wrong on this, but I doubt it :-) Otherwise it would work, yes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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