On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:22:39PM -0700, Tim Ryder wrote: > I curently run redhat 7.1 and want to switch to debian > but am having some big problems with it. > > First: the eepro100 net card driver doesnt work > Second: Pcmcia support doesnt work either > > I tried potato and testing. > > has anyone had and success with any of the vaio > series. > i've got woody up on a z505r. i installed potato off of a dos partition, then once the net connection worked, i did a agt-get dist-upgrade. so far no problems. the eepro100 worked under potato and is fine for me under woody. i don't have any pcmcia cards to play with so i haven't checked pcmcia support. the potato kernel was the stock one, i did a new kernel back in august (2.4.8) under woody, fwiw. the only problems i've run into happen when i plug the port replicator in _after_ booting. machine locked up twice after doing that. if the replicator is in prior to a boot, everything is fine. if you can post some log messages (dmesg) that might help getting some more specific suggestions. -- Sergio J. Rey http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html GPG fingerprint = 16DB 4934 E0F1 B386 AE81 D379 914C 33E5 F690 95DF can't she just stop talking?! - Savannah Franklin Rey (8 yrs old) on NBC's 2000 Olympic diving commentator.
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