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Date:      Sun, 2 Jul 2000 10:31:59 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   CardBus support (was: Crappy IBM PCMCIA Thingy)
Message-ID:  <20000702103159.D18213@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006301723460.65414-100000@markl.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006301723460.65414-100000@markl.com>

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On Friday, 30 June 2000 at 17:41:42 -0400, Damon Hammis wrote:
> Has anyone gotten the IBM Etherjet 10/100 Cardbus PCMCIA card working with
> FreeBSD? 

No.  At least not on the standard release.

> I'm running 4.0 and having a hell of a time with it.

I'd guess you're getting nowhere.

> The archives most recently said that support would be ready in a few
> weeks.  That was in April.  Am I to assume that it will be out in
> the 4.1 release?

No.  It'll be a while.

> If it's not then it's not...if it's supported or will be soon then I
> would love to buy a clue on how to get it working.

Unfortunately, your best bet is to buy a cheap 10 Mb/s card and wait
until the support is ready.  The problem is that the underlying bus
support has to be rewritten; supporting the card itself is relatively
trivial.

Greg
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