Re: kernel PCMCIA or Standalone PCMCIA

[pascal@thor.josi]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:08:22PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am using a 2.4 kernel, can I not used the kernel PCMCIA 
> (not use the drivers build by kernel)  and replaced with the 
> current 3.1.27 Standalone PCMCIA packages (cs and drivers),
> Which one will be better?
> 
> Alex

With a 2.4 kernel pcmcia-cs stoped to work for me too.
I installed the packege hotplug (see below) and everything is fine
now. 
I have a xircom Cardbus card (ethernet only - no combo with modem)
on a Acer Extensa 711TE with debian unstable (used testing before)
what I did :

- compiled a custom kernel with xircom cardbus support (2.4.3 /2.4.5)
- purged pcmcia-cs
- installed hotplug

hope that helped

pascal


shiva:~# dpkg -p hotplug
Package: hotplug
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 184
Maintainer: Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.0.20010424-3
Replaces: usbmgr
Depends: modutils (>= 2.4.2), debconf (>= 0.2.26)
Recommends: ifupdown, usbutils, pciutils, bsdutils
Conflicts: usbmgr
Filename: pool/main/h/hotplug/hotplug_0.0.20010424-3_all.deb
Size: 25978
MD5sum: 0e610839472276b9a4d0c0a131a1ebeb
Description: Linux Hotplug Scripts
 This package contains the scripts necessary for hotplug Linux support,
 and lets you plug in new devices and use them immediately.
 Initially, it includes support for USB and PCI (Cardbus) devices,
 and can automatically configure network interfaces.