On Wednesday 06 June 2007 21:26, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:18:28PM +0200, Theodor van Nahl wrote: > > I had installed etch with the net-boot-files on my laptop. The > > installation runs over the "low memory"-function. On the first boot > > of my new etch on kernel 2.6.18-4-486 , i have to realise that there > > are no pcmcia-drivers installed on the system. The laptop is an > > Toshiba Portegé 3010ct without cd-rom-device. How can i install the > > pcmcia-drivers with the installation? Or better: how can i install the > > drivers on my running but very small system? > First, make sure that pcmciautils is installed. Some older laptops have issues with new kernels (2.6.8 and up i believe). Try the boot parameter "acpi=off". This is an odd bug that definitely applies to IBM Thinkpad 600s. Avoid it alltogether by going back to Sarge and a 2.4 kernel. -- Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com> Location: GA, USA Web: http://matthewpoer.freehostia.com GnuPG Public Key: 4DD0A9A6 Keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net
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