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Re: installing PCMCIA support



frank.gorishek@amd.com writes:

> I am attempting to install PCMCIA support on a DELL Latitude LX
> notebook. I have used floppies (Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 built August 01,
> 1997) to install the base system and want to get my CDROM working (SCSI
> PCMCIA adapter) working (I have the CD set 1.3.1).

> I appear to be hitting a version conflict between the pcmcia-cs and
> pcmcia-modules packages. On the Debian CD I have pcmcia-cs version
> 2.9.5-3 and pcmcia-modules versions 2.9.5-2 (for kernel 2.0.29) and
> 2.9.5-3 (for kernel 2.0.30).  The kernel version is 2.0.29, so I have to
> use pcmcia-modules-2.0.29, but it depends on pcmcia-cs version 2.9.5-2
> (which I can't find).

> I have checked http://www.debian.org/packages and
> http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html to find a
> compatible set of card services, kernel modules and kernel to no avail.
> This seems pretty fundamental, so I must be missing something.

The correct PCMCIA packages for Debian version 1.3 (called "bo") are
located in the /debian/bo-updates directory on ftp.debian.org or one
of its mirrors.


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