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Re: Success: migrating ISA PCMCIA bridge and wavelan NIC to kernel 2.4.7



Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>         I finally managed to get my old ISA PCMCIA bridge working with
>  the 2.4.X kernels (running 2.4.9 right now). I went from the stand
>  alone pcmcia modules package to using the built in drivers in the
>  2.4.X kernels. I had to change two files; as shown below.

Wow, I'm gonna haveta try that. I could never get it to work.

> +PCIC_OPTS=extra_sockets=1

> 	The second change was to have the new orinoco driver be used
>  instead of the old vwlan_cs:

I ran into this too using the kernel pcmcia modules on my laptop (just
because the wavelan driver is supposed to be less buggy). I've been
trying to think of a way that the pcmcia-cs package can support both
module names, without much success. Symlinks don't work according to
some docs I've read.

-- 
see shy jo



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