Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:58 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> you may improve the ultimate installed experience by rolling your own
> kernel with just the bare minimum you need for these lappies.
That sounds like a good idea. So, what do I need to do my own custom
kernel?
Also, where can I get the 3c579 PCMCIA NIC module? I took a look at
modconf, and that is not one of the options. Then again, I didn't see
any PCMCIA opetions there. And apparently, modules aren't available for
install via apt-get either.
Anyway, so far, I have been able to get a bare etch system booted up
with kernel 2.4.27. On my build box, everything works fine (except for
an inability for modprobe to find psmouse (wtf? I thought that was
pretty standard across the board)
Now, when I transfer the hard drive back to one of the laptops, PCMCIA
services fails to start (Can't locate module ds, whatever that is), and
hotplug doesn't find it either. I have pcmcia-cs and pcmciautils
installed, but apparently those are for the 2.6 kernels. What is the
equivalent for 2.4?
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