Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:37:35 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hosokawa@jp.freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Well, I finally bought a test laptop and decided to jump in... Message-ID: <199707241837.MAA20779@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <13127.869764432@time.cdrom.com> References: <13127.869764432@time.cdrom.com>
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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 (406) 457 9000
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