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Re: netbsd and pcmcia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Oct 18 19:55:05 1995
To: "J. Nicholas Laneman" <nickl@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Oct 1995 20:00:37 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 19:54:45 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> What's the status of netbsd with pcmcia ethernet adapters. I want a
> portable, running netbsd (or linux, I suppose), and I'd like to be
> able to hook up to MITnet from my dorm room. Anybody have a working
> system? What's the make, configuration (RAM, hard drive, pcmcia
> chipset, graphics chipset, etc.)?
It looks like you want the Intel PCMCIA chipset for NetBSD. You'll
probably need to get a kernel specially compiled for your machine,
since PCMCIA support is quite new. We also can't guarantee that it
will work, although it works for at least one laptop I've seen.
Apart from that, almost any notebook should work. I can find out a
more complete configuration of a notebook known to work with NetBSD
with some more time, but I don't know exactly how long.
