From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 15:51:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA27946 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 15:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA27938 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 15:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id PAA21328 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 15:51:35 -0700 Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA12527; Wed, 1 May 1996 15:53:13 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 15:53:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Nate Williams cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hello In-Reply-To: <199605011801.MAA07508@rocky.sri.MT.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 1 May 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > I started the mobile mailing list, and have yet to post to it. :( Dooh! > That's the problem with having 3 development branches I guess. 'Tis. > > > My remaining question is, although it may be moot in a couple of months > > with 2.1.x, what are 2.1-R people supposed to do for PCMCIA support? > > That's a fair question, and here's the answer which you aren't going to > like. > > It depends. What are your desires? Do you want to help, or just get a > 'working' system? > > If you just want a working system, then get the Nomad stuff and apply it > to 2.1R, until I make my patch-set against -stable. Or the 0323-SNAP. I'd run more current versions, but I don't have my confidence up yet that I could pull the upgrade successfully (and I don't have the diskspace). > Note, Hosokawa already told me that the next release will contain some > stuff that is very destabilizing w/regards to combining APM and PC-CARD > support. But, that won't matter since the Nomad's are no longer support > 2.1, so you won't have patches anyway. Hopefully the old release will > be kept around, but if not then there is *NOTHING* for a 2.1R user to do > except upgrade to -current. 2.1 is falling too far behind, it looks like. > OR, if you want to help out (please!), you can do one of a couple of > things, but all involve getting the Nomad patches. I'd love to, but I barely know how to program C, much less do any Unix hacking. :( I'm only a freshman at the UO, so it'll be some time before I could contribute anything useful. > Either upgrade to -current and test out the code (w/out the Nomad > patches), and then add the Nomad patches if necessary. This will help > me out more than you know in that it tests the kernel functionality of > both the APM and PC-CARD code, which is pretty much stable as of now. > If your card's not supported, you should be able to add in just the > driver (and entry into /etc/pccard.conf) from the Nomad's patchset and > see if that's enough. That would be the extent of my ability, and then I have to get -current on the laptop in the first place. > This may sound a bit nasty, but if you aren't interested in helping me > test and get the FreeBSD laptop support working better, you may as well > run Linux where it already works pretty well. The current support works. I'm happy. If it could work better, that's for you guys to decide. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major