Re: FWD: RMS and Debian on his Toshiba
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 04:18:59PM +0000, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Can someone tell me what the problem is exactly?
> > I installed hamm using the Tecra disks, from CD-ROM, on my 310CDS.
> > I installed the pcmcia modules too. It works fine. Whenever I recompile
> > the kernel with make-kpkg I rebuild the pcmcia modules too. Easy.
> >
> > Presumably the problem is in network installations?
> >
>
> The problem is that the ToPIC95 and ToPIC97 controllers are not properly
> supported under the 3.0.1 version of the pcmcia utilities. For example
> on the Tecra 750 I have at home, my modem card works fine but my
> 3Com 3c589B ethernet intermitantly, and a Xircom CE3 not at all.
> All cards work fine on an older Satellite Pro 400 with the plain ToPIC
> controller.
>
> Upgrading to the latest pcmcia (3.0.7) fixed all these problems
And slink has 3.0.5 and potato has 3.0.7, I see. This should be a simple
matter of convincing Brian Mays that it is necessary (if he's not already
convinced), and then convincing Brian White that it should be let in
to the slink release.
I think there is a ToPIC97 in my Satellite 310CDS, now that you mention it.
I have 3.0.5; it mostly works but card change notifications don't really
work very well. (Same problem RMS was having.)
Hamish
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