On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 05:24:30PM -0600, Petr Hlustik wrote: >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:29:07PM -0800, Peter Hicks wrote: >> >> I am trying to get pcmcia working on my toshiba 7020 using kernel >> 2.4.17. I have downloaded the source from kernel.org and have turned >> off kernel pcmcia in favor of pcmcia-cs 3.1.31. After having built my >> kernel and rebooted, I am now trying to get the proper drivers >> working. My trouble seems to be that the yenta driver is not being >> built. > >AFAIK, the yenta_socket driver is part of the kernel, not pcmcia-cs. This >reflects the current mixed state of affairs, since some pcmcia-cs >functionality is being moved into the kernel (Linus decided) and it's hard >to find out where to look for info (and whom to blame for problems >;-)). E.g., my CardBus network card is currently detected and configured by >kernel & PCI hotplug, not by pcmcia-cs. The module supporting my card >(tulip.o) came with the kernel, so I did not have to use pcmcia-cs modules >at all (while I still need pcmcia-cs for basic PCMCIA socket >functionality). YMMV. > >I would recommend using a debian kernel package instead of source, since >Debian packagers have made, I think, good config choices to support PCMCIA >with either kernel or pcmcia-cs packaged modules and you'll get >yenta_socket.o plus a bunch of other modules. 2.4.17 images for potato are >at http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html. > >Hope this helps, >Petr > > I installed the 2.4.17-i686 package and it worked like a charm! When I tried this earlier I had not purged my /etc/pcmcia files, which caused me problems. I now have the hermes and orinoco drivers loaded, so it appears that my problems are solved.
Thanks again (and sorry for replying off list earlier) -Peter
