On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 02:17:35PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > I had a similar problem. I turned off all PCMCIA support in the kernel. > > I don't know why it's there in the first place (seems to be new with > > 2.4.x). > > Well, I've got some machines that only work with the kernel pcmcia > drivers and some that only work with the external pcmcia drivers. > YMMV... >
The way I understood it, broadly speaking you'd want the kernel drivers to handle the modern 32-bit cardbus cards, but you'd be better off using the standalone drivers for the older 16-bit pcmcia cards. Is this valid, or an over-simplification? Drew
