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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


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