Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 09:56:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: impressed w/laptop support in -current Message-ID: <14294.26316.632333.696338@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Hi, I just wanted to say "thanks" to the people who have been working on getting PCCARD support into -current. I just installed the PCCARD version of the Aug 27th snapshot of -current onto an old Dell Lattitude Lm. I'm very impressed that the installation found my 3c589d ethernet card & basically "just worked." It even managed to obtain its network info via DHCP on a DSL link. My sole disappointment was that the only obvious way to regain pcic support (w/o rebuilding the kernel) after rebooting after the install was to copy the kernel off the dist. floppy & onto the local disk. Then I still needed to rebuild a kernel because that one didn't have any pty's built in. It seems like a clear violation of POLA to install via a PCCARD kernel but have a non-PCCARD kernel when you reboot. So perhaps there should be a kernel.PCCARD built from i386/conf/PCCARD in the base distribution & perhaps sysinstall should be smart enough to copy it to /kernel when doing an install from the PCCARD floppies. This might keep some newbies from blowing their feet off, at least. Anyway, I'm impressed that I can run straight FreeBSD on my laptop & not get forced into PAO. Thanks! Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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