"device card" no longer being used?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 22:21:40 +0800
> From: =?UTF-8?Q?=E9=9F=A1=E6=AD=A6_=E5=BC=B5?= <zhangweiwu at realss.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> =E9=9F=A1=E6=AD=A6 =E5=BC=B5 <zhangweiwu at realss.com> wrote:=20
> >Hello. I feel a bit strange why the pcic device is commented out on
> >FreeBSD
> >5.2.1 GENERIC on my old thinkpad 380XD. This way my old IBM Creditcard
> >Ethernet II on PCMCIA cannot be detected.
> 
> OMG. Now I realized the pcic drive in 5.2.1 does not work at all. Look the
> 4.9 pcic(4) everything is okay, on 5.0 pcic(4) there is one more line: =
> "The
> drive does not work at all."
> 
> Now can you figure out a way to downgrade my 5.2.1 to 4.9 smoothly? My
> partiation is only one slice with 128MB swap and one partition inside the
> slice with "/" mounted on. Perhaps I'll have to clear out the harddisk to
> re-install, but that way I have 2GB of valuable data to backup, what do I
> use for backup if without NIC? plip0 is only what I can think of, that way
> I'll need 2GB/(45KBps*3600*24*365)=3D1.4 years to back up my data.
> 
> Oh what should I do! How I regret upgrading to 5.2.1. Why not people keep
> the old 4.x pcic drive when the new one is not working:( Sign.

Don't panic!  (I couldn't find the "LargeFriendlyLetters" font.)

For PCIC support on V5, you need to build an OLDCARD kernel. There is a
sample configuration for OLDCARD in /sys/i386/conf and it only entails
changing a few lines. Basically you remove cbb, pccard, and cardbus and
add pcic and card.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634