Subject: Re: ThinkPad A20m ( again )
To: Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/07/2000 13:42:28
On 7 Sep 2000, Laine Stump wrote:

> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:
> 
> > The install kernel doesn't appear to include cardbus support.  I don't
> > understand why it's been omitted, or I'd add it myself.
> 
> Yes, that does seem a bit bothersome - I've been contemplating
> installing 1.5 from scratch on the new 12GB disk in my thinkpad, and
> I'd have been "just a bit" inconvenienced to learn that I couldn't do
> the installation using my 3C575 (which requires CardBus). Was this
> just an oversight (I hope) which can be remedied before the 1.5
> release? Or is there some reason that it can't be enabled in the
> install kernel?

It can. I've installed NetBSD-1.5_ALPHA2 on my laptop, a digital
HiNote VP, over a 3C575BT cardbus card. I stripped out the (useless
for laptops) EISA stuff so I wouldn't have to deal with resizing.