CardBus on ppc

Justin Hibbits chmeeedalf at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 21:47:11 UTC 2011


On Sep 19, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:

> On 09/18/11 23:24, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>> I just installed 9.0-BETA2 on my TiBook, but noticed that there's no
>> cardbus support built for ppc. Is it because nobody's tested it, or  
>> is
>> there an actual problem with cardbus on ppc? Asking because my  
>> wireless
>> card is in the cardbus slot, and my switch is too small to support  
>> a 6th
>> device.
>
> It's just never been implemented/tested. cbb(4) isn't in GENERIC,  
> but you might need more than that.
> -Nathan

Good news, I built cbb, pccard, cardbus, into the kernel, and it  
worked.  Now I just need to get the broadcom driver working (probably  
just need to grab the firmware).

- Justin



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