5.3-RC1 attempt with a Toshiba Libretto 70CT failed, 4.10 OK

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <200410270046.i9R0kV0K012290 at laps.jhs.private>
            "Julian Stacey" <jhs at berklix.org> writes:
: It gets further than 5.2.1-RELEASE, as 5.2.1 hangs quickly after first floppy
: after trying to fetch modules off floppy with "No floppy devices found".

That's because there's no working support in current/5.x for the
YE-Data pcmcia cards.  It still works in 4.x, but not 5.x, alas.  I've
done some work to make it happy, but it still isn't happy with that
work.  The first problem is the fast interrupt, but even with that
fixed there's been enough changes in the floppy driver to make it no
longer work.

: 5.3-RC1 gets much further than 5.2.1 on this libretto: it loads
: Boot, Kern1, Kern2, then Boot, goes through Fdsisk & disklabel, then
: 	(as there's only 1 pcmcia slot, & I cant even with a device
: 	rescan get it to see an ethernet pcmcia or pcmcia cdrom
: 	card) ...  I try to do ftp install, using PLIP or SLIP ...
: 	& find it doesnt see either of the 2 serials (I guess one
: 	is mouse) or the parallel port, as well as not recognising
: 	the fresh plugged in & rescanned 3C589C pcmcia ethernet
: 	(that works well on other FreeBSD boxes)

That's because the L-50 and L-70 machines have only ISA PCMICA
bridges, and that's not yet completely working.  I'll try to fix this
as I have at least one older laptop that I'd like to see working that
needs this.

Warner