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Skriven 2006-04-21 19:50:00 av MARTIN ATKINS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
Ärende: Getting PCMCIA modem
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to MARTIN ATKINS <=-

 MK> Hey MARTIN!

 MK> Apr 20 18:30 06, MARTIN ATKINS wrote to STEPHEN HAFFLY:

 MA> On my system there is a document PCMCIA-HOWTO that has some
 MA> configuration information. See if you have an /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
 MA> file there. If so then you probably have what you need kernel wise
 MA> to set it up.

 MK> According to his distribution that is not doable without breaking
 MK> things.

Hmm? Looking to see if a file exists won't break anything.

 MA> slocate  PCMCIA-HOWTO

 MA> To see if you have the documentation on board. If not:-

 MA> http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net

 MK> If he does that then he'll see a message like this at bootup (if he
 MK> gets that far);

 MK> pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please
 MK> expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.

I don't see how reading a HOWTO could generate such a message.

MK> I got it working with pcmcia-cs version 3.2.8 since yenta isn't well
MK> supported by pcmciautils-013 which is the latest version (Fedora uses
MK> 011) and I suspect might be awhile before pcmciautils gets up to speed
MK> wrt the pcmcia database which works well with pcmcia-cs-3.2.8 even on a
MK> 2.6.17-rc2 kernel despite the warning.  I ssuspect he'd be better off
MK> using a distribution that still uses a 2.4 kernel and pcmcia-cs-3.2.8
MK> such as slackware.

/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/com20020_cs.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/3c589_cs.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/axnet_cs.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/fmvj18x_cs.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/ibmtr_cs.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/nmclan_cs.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.ko.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/pcmcia
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.ko.gz

As i said i don't know anything about laptops or pcmcia but from
the looks of this kernel 2.6.12 does support it. Perhaps he would
be better off installing Mandriva 2006. :)
 
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