Re: 2.4.18-686 kernel, but no PCMCIA
From: "Kenneth Jacker" <khj@be.cs.appstate.edu>
> kim> In the /etc/init.d/pcmcia script, there is some code that
> kim> replaces the value yenta_socket with i82365 in the PCIC
> kim> variable when the kernel version is 2.4.x. I have disabled this
> kim> override more than one notebook installations in which the
> kim> i82365 kernel module actually did not work while the
> kim> yenta_socket module worked just fine.
>
>
> PS I agree with you ... I wonder why the Debian folks put that
> override in /etc/init.d/pcmcia in the first place?
The "Debian folks" didn't. iirc, it's pcmcia-cs that does that - and if you're
using the pcmcia-cs modules rather than kernel modules, you still want to use
i82365. I ran into this too. For the most part, though, yenta is right on 2.4
kernels, and I wish this was always the default.
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