Thanks for the answers John! > Yes, those are very hard to find. Here's a list which shows which models are > compatible and which are not: > http://www.g-mb.de/pcmcia_e.html
> It took my quite a while to find a compatible one. This is attributed to the > fact that the Linux kernel uses a > different PCMCIA stack on the Amiga as compared to standard x86 PCs which > means that most PCMCIA > drivers the Linux kernel support unfortunately don't work on the Amiga > running Linux. I knew about the list. Shortly I expect to get into my hands a D-Link DE-660+ for testing it. In the list it says "should" in both, Linux and NetBSD. > Someone with enough time needs to port the modern and common > PCMCIA stack of the Linux kernel to the Amiga. It must be a very tough work. It is suspicious NetBSD/amiga is in the same status regarding the PCMCIA. Considering NetBSD supports Amiga hardware better than Linux, this is a bit suspicious. > The port is still maintained by a couple of fear- and restless kernel and > Debian developers as well as several other valuable contributors. Our heroes :) > If you want to help and don't want to code, you can start writing a detailed > installation guide, preferably with screenshots which shows the installation > of Debian/m68k on the Amiga step-by-step. Nice, how do I get writing permissions on the wiki? > A good idea would also be to test whether you can create a fully > bootable chroot with the help of vmdebootstrap which does not > require stage 2 of the debootstrap process to be run on the m68k machine, > see: https://wiki.debian.org/vmdebootstrap Is there any toolkit that would allow me to cross-compile the kernel and packages for m68k from a x86 machine? My Amiga is just a 68030/25 and it could take days to do the job :) And talking about vmdebootstrap, by the documentation I don't get clearly what are the debootstrap stages (took a look https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap and http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?sektion=8&query=debootstrap&apropos=0&manpath=sid&locale=en). Is there any sid m68k working repository for debootstrapping it? Greets, Carlos
