Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:55:50 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accton EN2216 PCMCIA Message-ID: <199803102055.MAA20002@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:49:24 MST." <199803102049.NAA27789@mt.sri.com>
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> > I don't know. Can't it just try to use the selected device at the > > appropriate time? If it's not there, it will get an ENODEV or > > some such thing. > > How does it know which device is there to use? There are *LOTS* of > different ethernet cards supported in the GENERIC kernel. True, but there aren't very many that come in the PC-Card form factor. Anyway: sysinstall must already have some way to figure out what devices are in the system, right? It seems to know about them during a desktop installation, at least. All it has to do is defer that discovery until later, when there's been sufficient time for pccard to enable the PC-Cards. > > think it would be worthwhile. It's a major pain trying to install > > on a system (like the ThinkPad 560) that doesn't have a CD-ROM > > drive. > > That's what lap-link cables and 3Com cards are for. :) :) You can install FreeBSD over a lap-link cable?! Hmm, is that the funky TCP/IP over the lpt interface thingy? I'd forgotten about it. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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