Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Running DL on laptop

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>Then I modified the config file by adding the line
>>
>>START_PCMCIA=yes
>>
>>This did something, as when I did lsprobe it showed that pcmcia_core was loaded but unused.
>>
>>I got the error message somewhere during startup:
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>>PCIC module not defined in startup options.
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>>In my Suse setup on the same machine, PCIC is an empty string.
>>
>>Setting up hardware on Linux is something I always (up to now) left for the distro to sort out.  My apologies for asking beginners questions in this regard.
> 
> 
> Try modprobing some stuff, like the PCMCIA module for your NIC.
> 
> You may be the first person to try a PCMCIA NIC on DL (I haven't),
> so it may not be setup to start cleanly.  If you can figure out
> what modules need to be loaded, we might be able to improve the
> standard startup procedure. 
> 

I'm not aware of anybody using PCMCIA either.

But it can't be a big problem to get it running, take a look at the 
installation instructrions here: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/
Of course the compilation part is something you can skip. ;-)

Heiko