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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Well, I finally bought a test laptop and decided to jump in...
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> $1100, but I also got a small selection of PCCARD periphs for it and
> intend to use it for testing and debugging the pccard support.
> 
> Some initial impressions:
> 
> When I first got it, I did what everybody else probably does and
> grabbed the 2.2.2 PAO floppy for installation (this laptop
> deliberately does not have a CDROM, so I need to do installs the hard
> way :-).  It dutifully found my LINKSYS ethernet device and before
> long I was doing an NFS install from my mounted 2.2.2 CD.  So far,
> so good.
> 
> Now I'm up with 2.2.2 and the pccard support has, of course,
> disappeared

Huh?  2.2 has had pccard support since it's inception.  Did you try
using it?

> of /etc/*pccard* and getting them updated, but after a few false
> starts and the insertion of a 10 second sleep into the file which
> starts pccardd so that it can have my ethernet device configured
> _before_ the other ifconfig stuff is run, it's working.  Yay.

Huh?  This shouldn't be necessary.

> Conclusions: This is harder than it needs to be and it really should
> be better integrated with the system - I understand that some of this
> stuff is "experimental", but where better to test and develop it than
> in FreeBSD's CVS repository?

Certainly *NOT* in the repository.  Read old email, or give me or Poul a
call and we can discuss things.


Nate

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