Re: Redhat 6.1/Alpha and PCMCIA

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber rochester rr com>]

Chock Griebel wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 12:30:35AM -0500, Matt Monacelli wrote:
> > I just got RH6.1 going on my Multia and have been going crazy trying to
> > figure out how to enable support for PCMCIA.
> 
> I recently got PCMCIA going on RH6.0 on multia w/out a hitch.  Download the PCMCIA
> source (search for it at google.com).  Read build and installation instructions
> and give it a whirl.  I remember the compilation hanging at the end on
> something that turned out not to be necessary (some .dat file or something).
> 
> >From what I read it's best to download the PCMCIA source and build yourself
> rather than rely on Redhat's prepackaged PCMCIA stuff (but I don't know if
> that's still true from RH6.1).
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Chock

On i386, PCMCIA is included in the kernel-pcmcia_cs rpm. On Alpha, there
is no kernel-pcmcia_cs rpm probably because the Multia is listed on the
HCL as "Compatible/Unsupported". This means if you want PCMCIA on the
Multia, you must 
"Use the Source, Luke... Let go your compiler... Trust Me..."

Chris Kloiber