[openbeos] Re: PCMCIA & Cardbus

>Anyways.. I'm developing on a laptop right now.. with a 10mbit network
card.. went out to get a 100mbit card without dongle.. but all the stores
'round here only have cardbus cards.. so I guess i'll have to either order
a PCMCIA card from somewhere, or dive into development..

Many "Cardbus" cards will work with BeOS 5's PCMCIA stack if the computer
has a 32 bit controller with built in 16 bit emulation - Texas Instruments
ones do, I use a 32 bit wireless card and a 32 bit network card.

>If anyone feel like pointing me @ the cardbus part of the linux kernel
module source code, that would be nice. Otherwise, I'll dig it out myself,
as soon as I get some more time.

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net

You may not know this, but BeOS's PCMCIA stack *is* the Linux one, at least
the old PCMCIA_CS one, not the kernel one. Its 3.0.14 (in BONE) I think,
but according to the programmes maintainer, the majority of the BeOS diffs
were left in the tree for a long time, till 3.2.7 or so. Its just the bus
managers, and not the utterly useless device_watcher hotplug daemon

However, it doesn't just build with 'make', as it expects Linux. But the
majority of the code is there, its under the MPL licence, and it is "Be's"
code, as they paid the maintainer to port it.

Kian
http://www.iol.ie

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