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.