[openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V4 #158

FWIW, this might be of relevance:

http://www.bebits.com/app/1678

.. being Martijn Coenen's Xircom PCMCIA driver. 

I'm not a dev, more a BeOS groupie, so I hope I have the right end of the stick 
here ... 


Cheers, and thanks to all you programmers,

Anton



> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:58:18 +0200
> From: linus@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] PCMCIA & Cardbus
> 
> 
> Would I be correct in guessing that Haiku lacks both a PCMCIA and the 
> extended 32bit Cardbus module?
> 
> Anyone working on one? Anyone know if it's similar to PCI?
> 
> PCI isn't even there yet, is it?
> 
> 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..
> 
> But before I do anything, I just wanted to know how much of a nightmare 
> it would be to write support for cardbus for R5 (and Haiku, later on). 
> And if the cardbus cards work just like 16bit cards, only 32bit?
> 
> 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.
> 
[schnip-o-rama]

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