Re: Woody /w PCMCIA-cs and Kernel 2.4.x
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Alex Suzuki wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I plan to buy a new Acer Notebook (Travelmate 525 TEV) with a
> 700 Mhz PIII and 256M Ram.
> I am currently running debian woody on my desktop pc and I love
> it, so I will also install Debian on the laptop. I am a bit
> confused about the pcmcia-cs package, could someone explain
> this to me? I think generic PCMCIA support has to be turned on
> in the kernel, but pcmcia-cs suggests pcmcia-modules-* packages,
> which are for specific 2.2.1x kernels. I want to use a 2.4 kernel,
> do I have to compile pcmcia-cs myself?
For the 2.4 kernel series, there are two sets of PCMCIA modules: the ones
from pcmcia-cs (in which the modules would end up in the pcmcia-modules-*
package), and the ones which are included in the kernel itself. AFAIK the
pcmcia-cs modules support more cards than the kernel modules do.
I'm not sure if the kernel-image-2.4.* packages in unstable include pcmcia
support; I just compile my own kernels. But if it is included, you won't
need any pcmcia-modules-* package.
Either way, whichever set of modules you choose, you'll need the pcmcia-cs
package, since this includes the support utilities, such as the card
manager, etc. The pcmcia-cs package will work fine with whatever version
of the kernel you're using.
HTH
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Hubert Chan
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University of Alberta
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