John C. Hayward (johnh@david.wheaton.edu) wrote:
: Dear NetBsders,
:    A coleague of mine sent me the following e-mail.  I have a note from
: rvb@IGW.TRUST.CS.CMU.EDU about some of his efforts of last June.  Are these
: incorprated in current?  Are there other efforts?
: 
: Thanks in advance for any pointers.
: 
: > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
: > Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 12:52:35 -0500 (CDT)
: > From: Stefan Brandle <brandle@charlie.acc.iit.edu>
: > To: johnh@david.wheaton.edu
: > Subject: netBSD question
: > 
: > I'm starting to look at UNIX for my laptop fairly seriously.  One thing
: > that is needed is finding out whether netBSD supports PCMCIA ethernet cards,
: > and which ones.  Linux supports a bunch of them, but I'm not completely sure
: > that I want to go with Linux.  I tried looking through the info at
: > http://www.netbsd.org, but didn't find any info when they discussed supported
: > devices.  Any suggestions?

Hm, there is an effort by Stefan Greven (greven@convex.com) consisting
of a generic logical PCMCIA bus driver, PCMCIA bus controler drivers for
(up to now) only two variants of i386 machines, and patches for a few
serial, SCSI, and Ethernet drivers to link into that.

I'm using his patches (when they where still to -1.0) and used them in a
production environment for nearly a year with the NE4100 and later the
3C589B Ethernet cards. AFAIK, the newer version is available as patchkit
to -current.

Regards,
	Ignatios Souvatzis