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From: Douglas Fraser dwfraser@luc...
Subject: [9fans] Re: PCMCIA Ether cards?
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:18:56 GMT


PCMCIA is its own monster, with a set of configuration
and personality registers that have to be read and written
to get the slot running at all. Consider the many devices
that call PCMCIA home, and it will all make sense.
We had a product that used the PCMCIA slot as an ATA disk.
It had no ISA behavior at all one it was configured.

Given that, I would assume that getting your PCMCIA/NE2000
driver alive would take considerable work. Is there any
PCMCIA support in Plan9 at all?

Doug

Steve Simon wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The compatability list shows only the 3COM 3c589 PCMCIA card Ether card as
> being the only one tested
> with Plan9.
> 
> I have seen an add for cheap NE2000 10/100 bps PCMCIA cards, these are
> supported as ISA cards I know,
> however is it just a case of plug and go for the PCMCIA version, or a
> simple S/W port to make one work?
> 
> Please excuse my ignorance of PCMCIA.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Steve