I have it running well on my laptop. PCMCIA does fail on boot. I do a "rcpcmcia start" and it works. PCMCIA has never worked twice the same way with any distro. I had Four on at once and it only worked on SuSE and Turbo but not Corel or Redhat.. Seems every new pcmcia that comes down the pike is different. The only thing I don't like about it is the default patched up kernel. I do too much HW development to be able to work with the SuSE kernels. But the "pristine source" or whatever kernel is just a Yast away. One weirdness is when I install over RedHat I end up with a "linux" and a "suse" in Lilo.conf, and there is only one os on the box. Seems to not happen if installed on a clean HD. T L Andrews wrote:
The second one is pretty major. This involves PCMCIA and networking on my laptop. The short form is, DHCP doesn't work, and static IP addressing only works if I immediately log in and run a tcpdump (thereby enabling promiscuous mode on my eth0 interface.) I've got a Xircom CardBus combo ethernet/modem card, which is supported just fine under RedHat.
I've tried several things, including recompiling the PCMCIA package, recompiling the kernel, downgrading to the SuSE 6.3 PCMCIA package...none of them fix the problem. SuSE tech support referred me to an upgrade which fixes Toshibas (didn't work, unsurprisingly), three SDB articles that had nothing to do with my situation, and that was about it.
Has anyone else tried to install 6.4 on a laptop? Can anyone confirm that 6.3 works on a laptop? I'll downgrade if I can get my hands on a copy of the 6.3 CDs.
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