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From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth)
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem support?
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Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 14:19:59 GMT
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Matthew Haught (haught_dm@academ.wvwc.edu) wrote:
: I been trying to install FreeBSD by FTP through my ppp account, but my
: PCMCIA modem is not being found when booting off the boot disk.  After
: Kernal configuration it shows sio1 as not being detected at 0x2f8
: although that is where the modem should be.  I tried 2.1.6-RELEASE,
: 2.2-BETA, and  3.0-970124-SNAP but got the same result.  2.2-960501
: snapshot is said to support PCMCIA modems, should the later releases
: also support this.  Has anyone gotten any PCMCIA modem to work with any
: release of FreeBSD?  If so, did you have to do anything to get it to
: work?  BTW my PCMCIA Ethernet card was found by FreeBSD, but I cannot
: use it -no network yet.

Hi Matthew,

there is no PCMCIA Support in the "normal" boot disk. You'll need
the PCMCIA aware boot-disk. As far as I remember I got it from:

http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/

Regards, Stephan

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