From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Gelm Subject: Re: PCMCIA: pre-compiled driver packages Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 18:44:07 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DFBC247.837CE099@gelm.net> References: <3DFB9211.99110E9C@gelm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux Newbie Hi, Jude: Thanks. kernel 2.2.19 is coming up on 1 year 9 months. ;-) I'm compiling kernel 2.4.20 now. I have found that PCMCIA requires a pcmcia-cs package; if not the userspace modules, at least the tools. Here is an excerpt from http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.1 "The kernel PCMCIA code has the same functionality as the driver side of the pcmcia-cs package. It does not eliminate the need to install the pcmcia-cs package, since it requires the same user tools (cardmgr, cardctl, /etc/pcmcia/* files). The drivers in pcmcia-cs can still be built for 2.4 kernels, so you have a choice of using either the in-kernel PCMCIA drivers, or the drivers included in pcmcia-cs. With 2.5 and later kernels, the standalone drivers cannot be used." I'll try to use the kernel drivers so as to be compatible with kernel-2.6.x, when it is released. Later, Chuck dashielljt wrote: > > kernel 2.2.19 is at least two years old. To the best of my knowledge it > did not and does not provide drivers for any of your pcmcia cards. I have > never heard any of them being tested for on boot up at any rate. I also > do not know if any of the more recent kernel releases offer these drivers > either. Probably your best bet would be to set up a freshmeat.net account > and subscribe to the newsletters and check them out. It's like windows > update for linux but far less intrusive. > > Jude - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs