I have a new smc netword card that takes both slots up (no big whoop) in my old compaq armada sb laptop and I found out that FreeBSD does not support CARDBUS nics yet =( I have even tried OpenBSD, and Suse Linux 7.2 ..and no luck.. does any linux distro have any cardbus drivers out.. thanks in advance.

I''m not sure which linux distros have the support for cardbus built in, but I can suggest that you install a distro of linux on to the laptop. Then download the kernel source and PCMCIA card services.

Untar both, then do the build process for each, and then install. I have a cheap pcmcia nic in my laptop so I have to add it into the Config file in one of the ../../pcmcia directories (can''t tell the exact file name cuz i''m not home at the moment). I can get the info from issuing the "cardctl ident" command then edit that config file as neccessary.

Give this a try as the 2.4.18 kernel does support certain smc cards and you will have the latest version pcmcia card services installed.


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