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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.news.telstra.net!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news-out.internetmci.com!infeed2.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu!shrimp.ifs.umich.edu!dugsong From: dugsong@umich.edu (Dug Song) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc Subject: Re: PCCard support: wow! And a question. Date: 11 Jul 1997 21:50:55 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5q69rv$rl5$2@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <86oh8kcuvo.fsf@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: shrimp.ifs.umich.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:174 Marko Schuetz (marko@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de) wrote: : After my experience with FreeBSD PAO I am impressed how smooth this : seems to work. i would like to see the PAO stuff ported to OpenBSD, actually. i'm running OpenBSD 2.1 on my ThinkPad 560, but the APM support is broken, which basically makes it useless for travel (it barfs on the apm0 probe at boot). the pccard support is satisfactory, but really minimal - no true plug-n-play like the PAO package. that's not all that important to me, though. i miss the little chirpy melody on card insert, though. if you remove a card while your system's up, expect a panic. i've asked tatsumi hosokawa about an OpenBSD port of PAO, and i plan to start looking at it myself... --- Dug Song <dugsong@UMICH.EDU> University of Michigan ITD Systems Research Programmer http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dugsong