Martin Godisch wrote: > The Debian Installer beta4 doesn't activate PCMCIA support on my > notebook. My network card is a PCMCIA card, hence the whole > (network-based) installation fails. There was Debian installed there > once before, meaning there must be a way it works. > > The last page on vt4 says: > ... hw-detect: Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr is already running. > ... hw-detect: Starting PCMCIA services: done. > ... hw-detect: Detected PCMCIA, installing pcmcia-cs. > ... hw-detect: Detected discover version 1, installing discover1. > ... hw-detect: Detected hotplug support, installing hotplug. > > The system never beeps, as it was always doing when starting PCMCIA. > > If I put in the network card thereafter, it prints: > ... cardmgr[...]: socket 0: NE2000 Compatible Ethernet > ... cardmgr[...]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs' > ... cardmgr[...]: + Using /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/kernel/lib/crc32.o > ... cardmgr[...]: + Using /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/8390.o > ... cardmgr[...]: + Using /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o > ... cardmgr[...]: executing: './network start eth0' > ... klogd: eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr ... > ... cardmgr[...]: + ./wireless: 102: /bin/hostname: not found Certianly looks to be enabled to me; it's noticing inserts and loading the right module for your card. In my experience pcmcia does not beep in the debian installer; I'm not sure why. Anyway, I suggest you try the latest daily build and if you still have a pcmcia problem, let us know, and let us know what the actual problem is. -- see shy jo
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