My pcmcia have worked on the modern dell and ancient ibm I've installed on.

On 5/23/05, Gilles Gravier <Gilles@gravier.org> wrote:
>  Well,
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> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/INSTALL.html
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>  Then go to "Possible PCMCIA Issues" :
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/INSTALL.html#Possible%2=
0PCMCIA%20issues
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>  Now, on each single laptop I've installed NetBSD on, I've actually had t=
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>  OK... Granted, it works...
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>  But, taking the example of Linux, on every one of these same machines, I=
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> never had to do anything special to get PCMCIA to work.
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>  Why not make these settings default? For those not capable of finding wh=
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> I mean, this is what I'm talking about:
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>         # cp /netbsd /netbsd.bak=20
>         # gdb --write /netbsd=20
>         (gdb) set pcic_isa_intr_alloc_mask=3D0x0a00=20
>         (gdb) set pcic_isa_alloc_iobase=3D0x330=20
>         (gdb) set pcic_isa_alloc_iosize=3D0x0bf=20
>         (gdb) quit=20
>         #=20
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> or you could specify these value when configuring your kernel, e.g.:=20
>  options PCIC_ISA_INTR_ALLOC_MASK=3D0x0a00
> options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE=3D0x330
> options PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOSIZE=3D0x0bf
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>  Gilles.
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>  Jeff Rizzo wrote:=20
>  Care to be more specific? I've installed several laptops without
> benefit of "patches".
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> If you're having trouble with the standard bootfloppys, try the 'laptop'
> ones...
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> Gilles Gravier wrote:
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>  OK... a warning. This message is a bit of a whine...
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> How come, in the last 6 years that I've been using NetBSD, it is still
> not possible to install NetBSD on a laptop without having to patch the
> kernel in order to use PC-MCIA network cards? This must not be too
> hard to integrate in the default kernels. All Linux distributions of
> the planet that I know of do it seamlessly. Why still have to manually
> go into GDB and hack into the kernel? What's worse, it's described in
> the README.html file, so it's not like it requires thinking. The
> things in the README.html have worked on every machine I've installed
> NetBSD on. Maybe it's time to have THOSE settings as defaults, rather
> than whatever is set today, and obviously doesn't work.
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> Comme on, guys... Let's make sure we do better than Linux. I'm sure
> we're up to it.
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