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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:10686 comp.unix.bsd:13551 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!cs.utk.edu!cs.utk.edu!moore From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Notebook (Re: BSD vs. Linux) Date: 14 Mar 1994 23:31:00 GMT Organization: Univ. of Tenn. Computer Science, Knoxville Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2m2s3kINNm7b@CS.UTK.EDU> References: <1994Mar9.094748.4022@swan.pyr> <ARNEJ.94Mar9134803@supernova.pvv.unit.no> <2lm8ok$ssr@news.nynexst.com> <2lp2t9$r73@u.cc.utah.edu> Reply-To: moore@cs.utk.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: wilma.cs.utk.edu In article <2lp2t9$r73@u.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: > >Have you tried to put your notebook on a network with a PCMCIA ethernet > >card? > > Works great; all you need is a PCMCIA enabler shim, which is very few lines > of code to write, especially if you have doc's for PCMCIA. Most of the > network cards are NE2000 compatible. Should take you half an hour. > > It also works with anything else PCMCIA if you code things right (or one > network card exactly if you do it wrong), including FAX modems and SCSI > interfaces for things like tape drives. 8-). Seems like there's not quite enough information there. In particular, some PCMCIA cards don't decode all of the I/O address lines (so you can map them into several different regions based on how you set up the interface chip), and there doesn't always seem to be enough information in the configuration tuples to tell you where to map the card to look like an equivalent isa bus device. But I'd love to see some code that proves me wrong! Also, the enabler shim needs to know about the whereabouts of other devices in your system, so that it doesn't map a PCMCIA card on top of something that already exists. (still trying to get my ethernet driver working for netbsd...) -- Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN 37996-1301 Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu BITNET: moore@utkvx Preserve the fourth amendment! Say HELL NO to key escrow!