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From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [PCMCIA on FreeBSD] PCMCIA installation floppy is now available!
Date: 13 Feb 1996 04:31:51 GMT
Organization: Tokoro Laboratory, Keio University, Yokohama Japan.
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In article <4fkq8g$5s0@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp>
 writes:

>> You can install FreeBSD 2.1.0R with various PCMCIA Ethernet cards,
>> PCMICA modem cards, and *CD-ROMs over PCMCIA SCSI cards* !!

I found a bug of this sysinstall that fails to detect PCMCIA network
card.  If I use fixit floppy and ifconfig it, it responds ping
requests, but sysinstall fails to detect it.  CD-ROM via SlimSCSI
works fine on my laptop.

I will fix this bug and release the new floppy in a few days.

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	HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi              E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp
	  WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html
	Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan