Re: No pcmcia on Vaio 505TL

[Z <zleite mminternet com>]

It's kinda historical behaviour for redhat, I think. pcmcia was always
broken for me since the phoebe betas. They are concentrating on bigger
server hardware, and the laptop support gets secondary attention.


On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 20:10, Audioslave - 7M3 - Live wrote:
> Z wrote:
> > I had to install a kernel from scratch on my vaio fx120 to get a working
> > pcmcia. The present 2.4.21-ac2 looks like a great candidate, since it
> > has the latest ACPI bits. I'm using 2.5.68 and it rocks.
> > 
> 
> I installed the 2.5.68 onto my desktop and it performs well. I was 
> wondering if there would be any advantage to running the version on an 
> old toshiba laptop. (233 MHz / 64 Megs of memory.
> 
> Currently, I'm running the kernel that Arjan sent out a link to his 
> directory. It works pretty much the same as the latest non-developmental 
> kernel.
> 
> I was having trouble with the older kernel recognizing my ethernet card. 
> (version from RHL 8.0). I was wondering if the person having troubles 
> has the latest pcmcia rpm that supports his particular kernel version. 
> also, I was wondering how integrated the interworkings are for the 
> kernel and the psmcis version required.
> 
> Why do older kernels fail to work with newer kernel-pcmcia-cs (I 
> believe) versions?
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
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Z <zleite mminternet com>