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Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p



you know that, even with pcmcia kernel support (from the 2.4 kernels) you need the pcmcia packages installed -- that's where you get cardctl, /etc/pcmcia/*, etc...

just a thought. 

glen


On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:34:45AM +0200, Frank Petzold wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 04:33:06PM +0200, H.Heinold wrote:
> > > The odd thing is that probe finds:
> > > 
> > > root@sten:~# probe -v
> > > PCI bridge probe: TI 1450 found, 2 sockets.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Cards work under Win98. Any ideas?
> > 
> > 
> > Is your kernel selfcompiled or the one from debian? In both case you
> > must install the pcmcia-modules. In the last ase you have to compile
> > the pcmcia-modules your self the following:
> > 
> > apt-get install pcmcia-source
> > cd /usr/src
> > tar zxvf pcmcia.tgz
> > cd modules
> > cd pcmcia-versionnumber
> > 
> > read the installations-tips
> 
> I have. BTW, pcmcia-source from debian fails to build the modules. Even if
> it did, the makefile as an ifdef such that in the case of debian nothing
> would vbe build (DIRS empty).
> 
> I wil try again removing PCMCIA support from hte kernel and taking the
> modules from pcmcia-cs.
> -- 
> Dipl. Informatikingenieur ETH  Frank Petzold  <frank.petzold@trustsec.de>
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> 
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Glen S Mehn
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