[freebsd-mobile] Re: Readily available card on 5.5?

[Julian H. Stacey]

"Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > 	so I need to find a replacement. The system can only go as
> > > far as FreeBSD 5.5, anything past and it isn't happy.
> > 
> > 6 was a pain / impossible for some old laptops with pcmcia, 
> > but 7 now supports some pcmcia again, give it a try if you haven't.
> > 
> > PS I've made some notes in my struggles to update some of my old laptops.
> > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> 	Thanks. Unfortunately I couldn't even get the kernel to boot 
> on the system that I need the card on.

That's the point of my page, IF you read it ?
Extra tricks to force BSD to boot on older laptops.

> On another laptop I can't go
> past 5.4-p22 otherwise it stops booting the kernel completely.

Read my page, Try 7, post what verbose boot shows,
& if you discover any tricks not on my page I'll add them.

> 	So I guess I could just really use to know what, if anything,
> people are doing to keep wireless connectivity when forced to be on
> 5.5?

Wrong way to think IMO :-) I'm trying to raise varios of mine from 4 to 7.

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