Question and request

[Justin Smith]

I have a Toshiba Portege 3500 tablet PC and would like to install 
FreeBSD on it alongside Windows.

It has a PCMCIA CDROM drive and the only version of Linux that 
recognizes it is Mandrake (my least favorite distribution). Although the 
current Linux kernel supports this drive (evidently), the other 
distributions do not include drivers for it in the version of the kernel 
used for installs.

Other Linuxen boot but cannot find the CDROM afterwards.

1. My question: does FreeBSD 5.2 support it?

2. My request (if the answer to 1 is yes): Can the kernel used in the 
install CD's (when they are made up) contain this support?