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From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA
Date: 3 Jun 1996 04:56:30 GMT
Organization: Tokoro Laboratory, Keio University, Yokohama Japan.
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In article <31ACD4C9.4FAA@injersey.com>
blue@injersey.com writes:

>> I got the PCMCIA installation disk from a site that someone had posted 
>> in this news group... I tried booting from it but it didn't seem to work 
>> because it gave me an error message saying cannot find /dev/pcmcia or 
>> whatever it was... 

I think that it's because PC card bridge in your laptop is not
supported by PC-card package of FreeBSD.  For example, Databook TCIC
and Cirrus Logic CLPD-6729 have not been supportted yet.

>> I even tried editing the startup using the -c option 
>> switching com3's info with com2's...since the pc card almost always goes 
>> on com3...can some1 plz help me? I'd really like to get freebsd 
>> installed on my notebook...later

It makes no difference.

What's the type of PC card bridge of your laptop?

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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