On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:53:55AM -0500, Charles Voelger wrote: > Is there a status on PCMCIA? specifically Network cards? if there is > nothing is there some work I can help on?
The status is, that PCMCIA support for gnumach is probably hopeless and senseless. PCMCIA support should be in OSKit, so that we can profit from it directly in OSKit-Mach. As far as I understood, it is possible to have direct support at boot time can be done in a harmless way, which would avoid the hassle of the card manager interface. This would be a good start (we would have no support for changing cards at run time, but for the common case of a single network card this is not a big problem). The good thing about this amount of PCMCIA support: You don't need to know anything about the Hurd. Just get OSKit and start the hacking. I am personally very interested in it, and I am willing to help as much as I can. But as I don't know either of OSKit and PCMCIA, I can not offer advice about what needs to be done. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
