On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 07:22:42PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I finally got the PCMCIA controller to do The Right Thing(tm) - at least enough to run wi(4):
> 
> tslot0 at sbus0 slot 1 offset 0x2000000 level 11: 2 slots
> pcmcia0 at tslot0 socket 0
> pcmcia1 at tslot0 socket 1
> wi0 at pcmcia1 function 0: <Dell, TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card, Version 01.01, >
> wi0: 802.11 address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> wi0: using Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE
> wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (6.10.1)
> 
> So I guess other PCMCIA devices should just work now. 
> In case anyone wants to play with this - a kernel for a SPARCbook 3GX is here:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/sparc/SPARCbook3GX_06_26.bz2

Any particular userland I should try with this?

(might not be till this coming weekend that I get a chance to play with this :-/)

> This kernel contains the usual wscons stuff, PCMCIA and support for wi and wdc cards.
> 
> Additionally it contains the following changes:
> - envsys works now via /dev/sysmon, as it's supposed to do
> - if you're running powerd and press the power button the unit will shut down
> - when idle the CPU will be put into sleep mode  so the unit will actually cool down
> - the MSDOS filesystem for flash cards and the like.

Closer and closer to wiping my Solaris 2.6 install for NetBSD on my Sparcbook. =)

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org