Re: making slink have pcmcia 3.0.12 for internal use
On 30-Jun-99 Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@varesearch.com> writes:
>
>> well here at va there are lots of sony VAIO's. So I am doing 7 floppy
>> installs
>> left and right. The problem is that everyone has newer nic cards that slink
>> does not work with. So I need to make a new set of floppies w/ pcmcia
>> 3.0.12.
>>
>> Please someone point me to directions on how to do this.
>
> Shaleh, you'll have to try to pull the sources from CVS and build with
> that, but that's a real crap shoot.
>
So I hear. Was going to try.
> I recently had the same problem. It's pretty much non-trivial to get
> the newer PCMCIA working on the boot-floppies (does it even work with
> 2.0.x kernels). What I ended up doing is installing the base system
> via floppy, then install potato pcmcia packages, 2.2 kernel, and
> potato libc6. Major PITA.
>
What I did is make a set of slink floppies plus another disk w/ pcmcia modules
and cs compiled for 2.0.36. yes they work just fine. The problem is the other
disk must be mounted and dpkg -i'ed. Looks kludgey when I am extoling the
virtues of Debian.
> Do you think it's worth it either (a) trying to solve this for slink,
> or (b) trying to get actual semi-functioning potato boot-floppies
> together. I lean towards the latter...
>
For me, slink is all i can depend on until potato is released. So yes, I would
like to have the new pcmcia rolled into a slink revision. They work, you just
have to compile them on a slink box. Which joeyh and myself have in this cube.
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