In message <2095f5e9.c8321-is@Beverly.Rhein.DE>  is@beverly.rhein.de wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> > 
> > 	I have a PCMCIA driver for the NetBSD 1.0A ix86 port, though I have not
> > seen any great demand for such a thing, in case anyone is interested, I'll
> > be happy to share the code.
> 
> Thats the second effort I hear about. Stefan Grefen <Grefen@confex.com>

Thats grefen@convex.com.

> has one 3/4 ready, which has a machine independent part and a PCMCIA on x86

You are an optimist :-)) 1/2 I would say .. (But than if I compare to 
Dos/Windows it's 99% ready :-/ )

> machine specific part (but you could hang in stuff for PCMCIA on Amiga
> or PowerPC). He also wrote glue stuff for the com driver (for PCMCIA
> modem cards), a SCSI card and a few network drivers. I changed the if_ep to a
> lso
> recognise the 3c589 (is in production use since yesterday).
> Unfortunately, still 1.0 based.

Will change when I upgrade. My Dual Pentium board is here , 
Memory/CPU's et.al. next week and than I'll upgrade.
(Yes 2 CPU's will be ordered, and the only OS on the disk will be NetBSD ...
 and BSDI's BSD/386 If they pay for the Dual CPU stuff )


> 
> > 
> > 	The code is table driven as far as the information for each card,
> > but the card has to be in the correct slot for it to be initialized.
> > The hooks are there to implement user level init software, but I was
> > mainly interested in being able to boot with the cards already enabled.
> > I'll probably get around to it at some point.
> > 
> > 	Works with:	Data Race RediCard  24/96 Modem
> > 			TDK DF2814 Modem
> > 			Linksys E-Card (D-Link 650)
> > 			3Com 3c589 (This card needs a specific driver
> 
> I adapted the 1.0 if_ep code to also work with Stefans code. 
> 
> Maybe be should try to coordinate efforts... Stefan is very busy at the
> moment with his job, as I understand?

Yes, there is no need for 2 solutions in NetBSD. It looks like his
stuff is more user-land based while mine more kernel based. I think
we could merge it.

Right I'm busy with 3 Projects (1 job 2 private), 2 hot (means burning sky high)
site's , a beta site , 1 1-year old son and a wife thats mad at me because I 
don't take my 2 year old vacation days :-))

> 
> Regards,
> 	Ignatios Souvatzis
> 	Ignatios Souvatzis
> 
> 

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Stefan Grefen                          Convex Computer GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
grefen@convex.com		       Phone: +49-69-665270