From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 16:22:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA26252 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA26189 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:21:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA18086; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:15:27 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604222315.QAA18086@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Compaq Contura 486 laptop To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:15:27 -0700 (MST) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, tonyc@compnews.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604221944.NAA09509@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 22, 96 01:44:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Modem:- > > > PCMCIA Worldport Miracom 14400 (generic AT command set modem) > > > > Possibly supported. I'm not aware of what the current pccard support is. > > I'm still working on integrating the Nomad's pccard support in our tree. > It's getting closer all the time, but there's still work to do. The > user-land code is a real mess, but I just ordered the PC-CARD > specification from the PCMCIA orginization so that should help. (Ouch, > $350 was a bit steep. :( ) Tell me about it. Then get the PCI and MCA specifications as well. And don't forget MSDN Level II subscriptions @ $500/year. 8-(. Standards that aren't open standards with reference implementations suck rocks. (PS: don't get the third party book for the extra charge; it doesn't have any information in it not already in the standard). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.