Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 16:18:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org> To: William Gnadt <wgnadt@rri-usa.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: status of *BSD Cardbus support Message-ID: <20020408161631.J97540-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <FDEAKKPJDKFHKLKLJJOLOEAECAAA.wgnadt@rri-usa.org>
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> I've been planning to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Inspiron 4000 for some time > now. > > However, I noticed that there is NO cardbus support at present in FreeBSD: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html > > I have a "Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56" that would be great to > use > with this laptop. (At least the network card -- I don't know if the modem is > a winmodem.) > > Is there any type of support for this card? Or, should I pick up a 16-bit > card > to replace it? Anyone have pointers regarding cardbus support on the other > *BSDs? (Again, documentation available via the web is sparse.) > > Thanks, once again, for any help or pointers. > If you want to use FreeBSD-STABLE, you are probably better off just getting the 16-bit card. FreeBSD-CURRENT has support for cardbus however, if you want to try installing that. I got my dell to install -CURRENT over a cardbus ethernet card, but I had to build a custom kern.flp that had cardbus enabled in order to do this. I was thinking about trying to do a port from current to stable this summer if nobody else had done it yet. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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