This posting is enough to keep my from attempting a Debian installation on my ThinkPad 770z.
RH 6.2, while old, at least works. > > thinkpad a21m, 2.4.9 kernel, woody. > > I may have to try the kernel pcmcia stuff - but I don't see the driver I > need in the list. I may be SOL. > I'm really bummed right now because this pcmcia build worked OK with the > 2.2. kernel and I can't get anything to work at all at this point. > > Event the reinstallation of the pcmcia-cs debian package doesn't 'fix' > anything for me at all. Since nothing compiles and nothing functions I > can only assume that it is horribly horribly broken. > > I can get the source code to compile - but that doesn't do anything for > Debian. > > I think I'll stick with the source for the kernel & pcmcia until I hear > something better about it. Right now I've lost a ton of function since > my upgrade and nothing in woody seems to be able to get any of it working. > Sound is gone > irda is gone > pcmcia is gone > the only thing that does work is ethernet, video, and the ide/pci buss - > but even that some something wrong with it. hdpar -tT shows a pathetic > <4MB/s transfer rate on a ATA100 drive. I should be able to do MUCH > better than this.
