On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 01:56:22 +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 03:58:30 +0300 > From: Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> > Message-ID: <zmzptopnjv_xn...@snips.stderr.spb.ru> > > | a CF card in a PCMCIA slot: > > I used to have systems with PCMCIA - I formed the impression (at the > time - several (major) NetBSD releases ago) that old sytle PCMCIA support > kind of bit-rotted about the time that CF support was being added.
I have tested my Jornada relatively recently (a couple of years ago, with current that would eventually become 10) and it worked. CF is the only storage option there, so I would have noticed :) Unfortunately it's the CF itself that bit-rotted (the nice large 2GB one), so I only could test a minimal installation on a 256MB card. I have an old Latitude CP of ~2000 vintage with 2 cardbus slots. wi(4) works. Unfortunately other PCMCIA network card drivers seems to have bitrotted indeed. Neither mhzc(4), nor ne(4) work. Something changed at the interface/ether level, I guess. I seem to recall that freebsd(?) taught wi(4) WPA so that it can be used with modern access points. It requires updated firmware and I managed to flash the new one, that is supposed to support WEP, to one of my cards (there's a windows xp tool and i happened to had an xp machine with pcmcia slot) but have no idea if WPA indeed works (it still works with the old driver). -uwe
