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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Mar 11 16:49:16 1996
To: kmilos@MIT.EDU (Milos Komarcevic)
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:38:18 EST."
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:45:10 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I'm a network administartor in a fraternity, and some guys wanted me
> to install NetBSD on their laptops. What is the situation with the
> support for laptops and PCMCIA Ethernet cards? One of the machines
> is an IBM 760c with a Megahertz card, and the other is a Toshiba
> with a 3Com 3C589.
> Is it possible to build a kernel for those cards, or should I go for
> Linux?
If you look in /mit/netbsd/dev/machine-specific/new-drivers, there are
kernels with some unnoficial PCMCIA support compiled in. (Please read
the README file in that directory to find out how to use those
kernels.) However, what I have compiled in there doesn't seem to work
with very many machines; I still need to try a newer version of the
patches in question.
Linux's PCMCIA support is somewhat nicer anyway (e.g. it automatically
recognizes when you plug a card in), so you may want to go with Linux
at least for the moment.
