> A new cardbus driver that is capable of handling > 16bit and 32bit PC cards has been released. It > supports, TI, O2 Micro, Toshiba and Ricoh ( for Sony > VIAO). > It's available at > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ca > rdbus. > > > -Sanjay
Sanjay, Thanks for the pointer - I've installed in on an IBM T43p. It works with an IBM Cardbus firewire card and a Plextor PX-716UF (both Firewire and USB/2 interfaces to the drive). However, when I hot plugged an IBM (atheros) Cardbus 802.11abg card, I got a freeze and an automatic reboot. I rebooted with the card in but got a string of errors on the boot console and it rebooted again automatically. I pulled the card. The same card works in an older IBM A21p with TI Cardbus chipsets but only in the top slot as ath1. When I hot plugged a (know to work with older versions of Solaris x86) TDK Global Freedom 5660 PCMCIA modem, it was recognized but a 'tip pc0' resulted in a "connected" message and a hard freeze :-( . I pulled the card without effect so I held the power button down until the machine powered off. I rebooted which stopped with complaints and did a safe boot as it suggested. After a fsck and fixing things, it booted normally (or at least it appears that way). I tried hot plugging the Firewire card into the Cardbus slots in the Docking station but that didn't work. I know the slots in the dock work as they have been used with Windows XP (and used to work with the Lynnsoft Cardbus drivers and an IBM A21p running Solaris 10 before the new ddi stuff broke Lynnsoft). I did some testing with SunRay server with that machine using the Cardbus interface as the SunRay private network. I was hoping to try the same with the T43p but that gets to wait ... Thanks for the work on pushing forward Solaris x86 and specifically notebook friendly stuff. Stuart This message posted from opensolaris.org
