PCMCIA advice needed!

[vester <a9900876@unet.univie.ac.at>]

hello,

just a basic question about pcmcia...should i get the pcmcia source
package and compile them myself or does the pcmcia-modules package
basically provide for this?

i compiled my kernel with pcmcia support and cardctl seems to recognise my
cards (at least the names), a network card is automatically assigned to
/dev/eth0 but modem and cd-drive for example are not assigned to
/dev/modem and /cdrom respectively...also, when i checked in
/var/log/daemon.log i saw that cardmgr gets some modprobe error
messages...

for a modem to work, do i have to create /dev/modem myself? with mknod?
help!

well, basically i thought, since i got those error messages in the log
file and the cards seem to be found correctly, that there are missing
modules or something like that...so that's why i wanted to know if it is
generally a good idea to compile the pcmcia sources manually or not (the
most important card (network) works, so i am coutious about changing
anything really)

thanks...

-vester