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Date:      Wed, 04 Mar 1998 21:11:21 -0500
From:      "Matt White" <mwhite@cmu.edu>
To:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Developer asks for list of desired supported cards 
Message-ID:  <4282618254.889045881@BITES.ADSL.NET.CMU.EDU>

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I would very much like to see cardbus supported under FreeBSD (I know, it's
a whole new bus...).  Along those lines, we've had good luck with our Xircom
cards.  I understand that Xircom isn't the most outgoing about information
however...


-Matt

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Matt White
Network Systems Designer
Canegie Mellon Computing Services


--On Wednesday, March 04, 1998, 6:24 PM -0700 "Nate Williams"
<nate@mt.sri.com> wrote: 

>> > If you had to choose a cheap/fast PCMCIA ethernet card that is
supported
>> > or you would like to make sure is supported in FreeBSD, what would that
>> > be?  The 3COM is out of the question, since it's will continue to be
>> > supporte as long as it's sold. :)
>> 
>> The new 3com 100Mbps card.  There's a 16-bit version as well as the 
>> CardBus card, and this would be our first 100Mbps pccard.
> 
> There's a 16-bit version?  Cool!
> 
>> > How about other cards?  What kinds of things aren't supported in
FreeBSD
>> > currently and/or things you'd like to see supported.  (We're talking
>> > about FreeBSD here, not PAO.)
>> 
>> The Adaptec SlimSCSI "sort of" works.  It would be good if that was 
>> fixed.
> 
> The "sort of" part has do more with the hardware than the driver in
> FreeBSD.  It works as well as the hardware allows. :) :) :)
> 
> (I have no problems on my box with it, but it's not doing much more than
> read CD's).  I think it's as 'good as it's gonna get' as far as support
> goes.
> 
> 
> 
> Nate
> 
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