Subject: Re: 802.11 on a SS20?
To: port-sparc@netbsd.org, Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>
From: Michael Lorenz <ml@rz.uni-potsdam.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/11/2002 14:54:39
Hi there,

>I'm about to 'inherit' a dual SparcStation 20, and wanted to use
>it as a wireless basestation (to free up my i386 for playing Civ3 [1])
>- just wondered if there was a way to use PCMCIA cards in Suns?
>
>(Some kind of expansion card perhaps?)

There is a SBus-PCMCIA bridge, search netbsd.org for <nell>.
SPARCbooks have PCMCIA too but that seems to be an entirely different controller.

>And are they supported under NetBSD? I understand the driver is
>MI, but obviously that's a moot point if the hardware required doesn't
>exist for the platform...

It should be, but only in -current as far as I know.

have fun
Michael