While I'm waiting for 9.0 to *eventually* make its way here from Amazon.com, I loaded 7.3 onto an old Toshiba Tecra 720 laptop I had laying around. The install doesn't find either the sound card (which I'm not too concerned about) or the pcmcia net card. I've got a few old ones and none of them seem to work. I think one of the newer ones is a Linksys card (black plastic) that has no ID on it. cardinfo says there are no pcmcia devices in /dev. I'm totally lost. I don't know a lot about these things, but want to learn. Any help? -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
The Wednesday 2003-11-26 at 15:27 -0600, Jim Sabatke wrote:
While I'm waiting for 9.0 to *eventually* make its way here from Amazon.com, I loaded 7.3 onto an old Toshiba Tecra 720 laptop I had laying around. The install doesn't find either the sound card (which I'm not too concerned about) or the pcmcia net card. I've got a few old ones and none of them seem to work. I think one of the newer ones is a Linksys card (black plastic) that has no ID on it. cardinfo says there are no pcmcia devices in /dev.
I'm totally lost. I don't know a lot about these things, but want to learn.
In 7.3 you should disable kernel pcmcia support, and use the external support, which you may have to compile, I don't remember. I know I did it, but that was over two years ago, so I don't remember the details: in particular, I'm unsure if I had to download the files from somewhere. Ah... here are my notes, from my backup (jul 2001): |> Symptom: |> ======== |> |> Kernel 2.4.0 or 2.4.2 does not work properly with pcmcia, does not |> recognize cards. While booting, it may complain of missing modules as |> memory_cs, whose binary was installed originally from the suse CDs; |> however, they re not recompiled with the rest of the kernel. Evenmore, |> the source are not included with the kernel sources. |> It is a known fact: pcmcia support is incomplete in kernel series |> 2.4.0, and is expected to appear in 2.4.5. Simply disable pcmcia in |> kernel, install pcmcia source packages, and follow instructions to |> recompile and install. You have to recompile pcmcia modules everytime |> the kernel is recompiled and installed. Also, SuSE version 7.3 came also with a kernel from series 2.2, and I think it worked better. Ah, yes, I see in the backup I got the pcmcia tree from SuSE cds: km_pcmci-3.1.22-5.i386.rpm pcmcia-3.1.22-5.i386.rpm pcmcia-modules-2.4.2-0.i386.rpm So you can repeat the process :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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