Installation guide

Hardware Support
The Solaris operating environment continues to provide the software needed to
support new hardware.
PCMCIA PC Card
The PC Card Standard defines a 68-pin interface between a credit-card sized
peripheral and the PC Card socket in the computer. It also defines a software
architecture that enables the computer’s operating system to configure and control
the PC Card peripheral dynamically, upon insertion.
The Solaris 2.6 release provides a UNIX implementation of the PC Card Standard,
bundled with a number of drivers for common PC Cards. The Solaris Card Services
provide PC Card driver interfaces with ANSI C language bindings, enabling drivers
to be written that are independent of the particular platform and host architecture.
For more information, see Writing PCMCIA Device Drivers which is available on
Sun’s external web page on the Device Driver Kit Web site.
Nomadic Support/File Synchronization
The new filesync feature ensures that data is moved automatically between the
portable computer and the server. filesync is primarily intended for use on
nomadic systems, although it may also be useful for backup and file replication on
more permanently connected systems. Its purpose is to keep copies of files in sync
between multiple systems, typically a server and a portable computer.
filesync can be used to maintain lists of files and directories to be kept in sync
between multiple systems. Each time it is invoked, it examines all the files on both
systems, determines which files have changed, and propagates the changes
(creations, deletions, edits). It can deal with changes in both directions, and with
conflicting changes.
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Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) ♦ August 1997