Re: Repost: PCMCIA card for Vaio, advice needed

On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:16:47PM -0700, Michael W. Collette wrote:
> This user spends about 95% of his time on some kind of Ethernet setup.  I just 
> want to make sure that when he goes out of town that I'm able to provide him 
> with some means of getting a dial up to work.  A simple card swap wouldn't be 
> a bad deal at all for him.

That's how I do it currently.  I use:

	- Cisco Aironet 350 (an(4)) for WiFi (98%+ of the time)
	- Linksys PCM100 (ed(4)) for wired 802.3
	- a really old modem pc-card that works great on FreeBSD

> I doubt I'll have the time to play with CURRENT on this thing.  It's an old 
> k6-500, and I know compiling is going to be time consuming on it.  I don't 
> want to have to spend days trying to get him outta my hair :)  Getting X, 
> sound, and all that working is going to be bad enough.  Still beats the heck 
> outta dealing with Windows viruses, or the screwy upgrade path the Linux 
> distros provide.

You know, you can install a -CURRENT snapshot from
snapshots.jp.freebsd.org like any other release.  You could also
try 5.0-DP1 which is only 2 months old...

Regards,
-- 
wca

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