Re: 3Com Megahertz 3CXM756 PCMCIA modem on 5.3
"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
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In message: <[email protected]> Duane Winner <[email protected]> writes: : : > : > I was just wondering what the status of this is, if any. I'm about : > commit our in-house installation procedures for 5.3, and others on my : > team are going to want to migrate soon, but lack of PPP support on our : > laptops isn't going to fly over too well, especially now that there is : > some travelling going on. We want to stick to -release, as opposed to : > -stable. : > : > I was thinking, I figure we have three possible options: : > : > 1. If your patch is going to get merged into 5.3-release, that would : > be the best route; but if that isn't going to happen, or not soon: : > : > 2. Could we manually apply your patch to /usr/src after cvsup'ing : > before buildword/buildkernel? : : For what it's worth, I answered my own question by finding version : 1.17.2.1 of exca.c up on the cvs tree and replaced : /usr/src/sys/dev/exca/exca.c in my 5.3 src tree. Rebuilt kernel, and : voila! I can use my modem on 5.3-release! Yup. That's the moral equivalent of applying the patch. : Maybe not the most graceful way of going about it (and i'll have to : remember to watch this when I cvsup and get a patch for /usr/src, : right?), but it works for me and is close for folk music. I've been debating applying this to the 5.3 errata branch. It is a lot of extra work given the number of files that I touched to fix other pccard related problems. I'm just not sure that it is worth it when I can spend that time fixing other problems that I'm aware of in current's pccard stack... : I'm assuming this will make it into 5.4? Yes. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"