RE: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p
This posting is enough to keep my from attempting a Debian installation on
my ThinkPad 770z.
RH 6.2, while old, at least works.
>
> thinkpad a21m, 2.4.9 kernel, woody.
>
> I may have to try the kernel pcmcia stuff - but I don't see the driver I
> need in the list. I may be SOL.
> I'm really bummed right now because this pcmcia build worked OK with the
> 2.2. kernel and I can't get anything to work at all at this point.
>
> Event the reinstallation of the pcmcia-cs debian package doesn't 'fix'
> anything for me at all. Since nothing compiles and nothing functions I
> can only assume that it is horribly horribly broken.
>
> I can get the source code to compile - but that doesn't do anything for
> Debian.
>
> I think I'll stick with the source for the kernel & pcmcia until I hear
> something better about it. Right now I've lost a ton of function since
> my upgrade and nothing in woody seems to be able to get any of it working.
> Sound is gone
> irda is gone
> pcmcia is gone
> the only thing that does work is ethernet, video, and the ide/pci buss -
> but even that some something wrong with it. hdpar -tT shows a pathetic
> <4MB/s transfer rate on a ATA100 drive. I should be able to do MUCH
> better than this.
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