Re: Purge Hotplug?

["Francisco Zabala" <zabala.f@gmail.com>]

On 1/16/07, Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
<...snip...>
> > Seems like udev is handling everything now.  Use dpkg -P hotplug to
> > purge, though you might get unexpected results on boot. For instance,
> > I had to modify my hard drives from hda --> sda   because of the
> > change for hotplug to udev (I guess they use a different naming
> > scheme).
> >
>
> I'm still using hotplug on my Thinkpad to make the wireless card work.
> In fact, I'm holding my version of hotplug because when in the past I've
> upgraded to the version in Unstable it has not worked.  I did once
> fiddle with udev but retired defeated.
<...snip...>

For the wireless card you could try ndiswrapper in Etch.  I have 3
different cards and they all work with "ndiswrapping" their respective
windows drivers (if interested do a google on ndiswrapper and go to
the wiki, or feel free to email me directly for instructions on this
program)

Cheers

-Cisco

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