On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 10:03:17PM -0400, Scott Bigham wrote: > This is, I humbly submit, at least partially on-topic for this list, ;) > since the machine I'm thinking about upgrading is my notebook, and at > least some of the questions are laptop-specific. > > Anywho, these are the upgrades I'm considering: > > - kernel: 2.2.19 -> 2.4.9 > > My understanding from previous discussions on this topic is that the > PCMCIA kernel modules in 2.4 are NRFPT (or has this changed in > 2.4.9?), and that I will therefore need to build and install the > pcmcia-cs modules in the same manner that I did for 2.2.x, after > which I will presumably have exactly the same PCMCIA functionality > that I have now.
To understand how pcmcia works and what is the different between pcmcia-cs and the kernel stuff please read at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net Henning Heinold