Using google I found 219 entries with "freesco pcmcia". First page had
entries that said "hey have been successfully used to enable Freesco to use
a 10Mbps Ethernet PCMCIA card and a standard PCMCIA modem card"
So you should not have much problem...
On Monday 25 March 2002 21:22, you wrote:
> Sure wish someone had a version that supported PCMCIA!
> They don't "officially" support it and have no plans to do so.
> They refer interested parties to the PCMCIA project to work
> it out themselves ... nice.
>
> Anyone aware of a site from which one might download a
> version of Freesco with the PCMCIA patch?
>
> Messed around with NetBSD on my ThinkPad 360cse 486/50
> with 16mb memory but so far no joy.
>
> Thanks! doc
>
> > Well, I've used Freesco and it only needs 6MB. So that's a really tine,
>
> but
>
> > quite sufficent router and NAT and packet filter and print server and DNS
>
> and
>
> > mini web server and telnet server...
> >
> > That's freesco.org
> >
> > On Monday 25 March 2002 12:11, you wrote:
> > > I'm planning to use an HP Vectra 486/25N as a dialup router (unless
> > > anyone else would like to donate something else that runs cool enough
> > > to remove all fans), and have two 3C509B NICs and a Supra 56i
> > > (true)modem. I *might* want to use it as a print server, but that's
> > > gravy.
> > >
> > > I have no RAM and I'm about to scream because it'll cost $26+S&H for a
> > > 16MB Kingston module (it supposedly wants 80ns FPM, although there have
> > > been reports of getting the much-more-common 60ns FPM to work). The
> > > motherboard can take up to three such modules for 48MB total memory.
> > >
> > > Can anyone suggest how much memory I'll need for a stock distro kernel
> > > and any modules and software that might be necessary? I can try paring
> > > down the kernel, too (no PCI, no SCSI, no USB, etc.) if appropriate. I
> > > don't want to spend around $80 maxing out the memory if I don't have
> > > to. Last I heard, the Linux Router Project would run in 12MB but
> > > didn't have diald.
> > >
> > > And if anyone's got hardware (16MB FPM at any speed, a different
> > > platform, a 486/50-66 CPU) in need of a good home, I'll help you out.
> > > ;)
> > >
> > > Ben
> >
> > --
> >
> > Steve
--Steve
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