Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:23:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pccard disruptions : how did it go? Message-ID: <199912151723.JAA22374@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199912151655.JAA61300@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Dec 15, 1999 09:55:27 am"
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Warner Losh writes: | In message <199912151129.TAA29972@laurasia.com.au> Michael Kennett writes: | : I've just scoured the archives, and found a thread from late October 1999 | : titled: | : Massive pccard disruptions to continue | : | : So, have these disruptions continued? And what is the current status with | : pccard support in the kernel? | | The new pccard code is still being worked on. | | However, the old pccard code mostly works again, modulo a couple of | if_detach issues that I'm trying to work through. | | : I've noticed that a few files still contain the PCCARD_MODULE macro | : - in particular, the dev/pccard/if_xe.c Xircom driver. I'm | : interested in getting the if_xe.c driver to work under -current | : (12-Dec sources). I'd be interested in any ideas on how to convert | : the old if_xe.c driver to the 'newbus' code. (I'm not familiar with | : either the old PCCARD_MODULE, or the newbus code.) | | The if_xe and if_fe drivers no longer work for pccard. You may wish | to investigate how the ep and ed drivers were converted. There is one | issue with the if_xe driver, namely it needs to access the CIS of the | card to determine which kind of card it is and that will need some | work in -current to get working again... I will try to take a look at the Xircom driver and try to newbus it after I finish some work on the Arionet driver (It's annoying have to deal with non robust dongles and then I don't have to carry a modem & 2 ethernet adapters). However, Linksys has an interesting card .. unfortunately you can't stick 2 of them in at the same time. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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