Subject: RE: PCMCIA CD-ROM
To: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/14/2000 18:41:23
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, David Woyciesjes wrote:

> 	> I'm gonna be loading NetBSD 1.4.2 on my Thinkpad760 this weekend.
> But here's
> 	> the interesting part...
> 
> 		(You might want to try 1.5_ALPHA2 instead - the hardware
> support
> 		has been updated quite a bit).
> True, but I'll be in Vermont for the weekend, and I don't have DSL
> connection there. Since I've already got 1.4.2 on CD, and the CD-ROM that
> came with the Stinkpad...
> 
> BTW, I have two DEC Multias, and two other Thinkoad 360 laptops. Once I know
> this portable CD-ROM works, I can use it between all of them... 
> 
> 		It might work - if not and you can boot a kernel with
> 		PCMCIAVERBOSE, then it may be a simple matter of adding
> 		a couple of entries to /sys/dev/pcmcia/wdc_pcmcia.c and
> 		/sys/dev/pcmcia/pcmciadevs
> Really? Any ideas what they might be?

	The vendor and product codes displayed by PCMCIAVERBOSE 
	See:
	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/#new_pcmcia_device

                David/absolute
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