Re: Req. advice on upgrades: kernel, X, libc
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 10:03:17PM -0400, Scott Bigham wrote:
> This is, I humbly submit, at least partially on-topic for this list, ;)
> since the machine I'm thinking about upgrading is my notebook, and at
> least some of the questions are laptop-specific.
>
> Anywho, these are the upgrades I'm considering:
>
> - kernel: 2.2.19 -> 2.4.9
>
> My understanding from previous discussions on this topic is that the
> PCMCIA kernel modules in 2.4 are NRFPT (or has this changed in
> 2.4.9?), and that I will therefore need to build and install the
> pcmcia-cs modules in the same manner that I did for 2.2.x, after
> which I will presumably have exactly the same PCMCIA functionality
> that I have now.
To understand how pcmcia works and what is the different between pcmcia-cs
and the kernel stuff please read at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net
Henning Heinold
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