HP OmniBook 5500CT and PC Card controller with FreeBSD 6.1?

[Peter Jeremy]

On Thu, 2006-May-25 22:40:47 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> The machine lacks any other "easy"
>ways to install from as well: usb / firewire ports? no.  cdrom? no.
>built in network card? no.

Actually, you've got 2:  You could run PPP over the serial port or
PLIP over the parallel port.  (The latter can be very hard on both
hosts).

>Ok, that leaves me with only one option: I take out the harddrive and
>install on another machine.

I've done this in the past...

>none1 at pci0:3:0:	class=0x060500 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11001013 rev=0xe2 hdr=0x00
>    vendor   = 'Cirrus Logic'
>    device   = 'CL-PD6729 PCI-to-PC Card host adapter'

This isn't listed in the cbb(4) supported devices.  It looks like it
was only supported by OLDCARD and so it doesn't exist in 5.x and later.
I'm not sure how feasible it would be to implement support.

-- 
Peter Jeremy