Re: Repost: PCMCIA card for Vaio, advice needed

On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 04:23:18PM -0700, Michael W. Collette wrote:
> Got a friend here with a Sony Vaio laptop.  An old one.  No built in 
> ethernet, and I know the modem isn't going to enjoy support.  With all that 
> in mind, as he wanted to give a shot at leaving the world of Windows 98 
> viruses behind I decided on giving Suse Linux a shot.

Actually, the modem might get support if it's a Lucent WinModem.
See ports/comms/ltmdm for the binary-only kernel module.

> I'm now at a cross road.  I'd love to just get FreeBSD on there, but I'm 
> clueless as to which PCMCIA card out there will be fully supported for both 
> ethernet and modem.  It's that, or I end up purchasing a copy of Suse 8.0 
> and having their fancy installer handle upgrading the apps.  I'm not so hot 
> on doing this, as I'd be in the exact same place with application upgrades.
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message

Xircom cards are supported but dual-function cards are not,
AFAIK... in other words you could only use one of the functions
at a time.. and I'm not sure you can choose which one.  Also,
CardBus cards are only supported on -CURRENT.  You should give
it a shot just for kicks, if you have time.  Although.. on
-CURRENT sources I don't see "RBEM" anywhere in
defaults/pccard.conf, so you may be out of luck anyways.

Regards,
-- 
wca

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