On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:05:52PM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 11:09 -0500, Willie McKemie wrote: > > I have some ISA/PCMCIA adapters that I have not made to work with > > PCMCIA wifi cards. Can someone tell me what modules I need to load? > > Or what other magical incantations need to be invoked? I have > > installed all the normal laptop stuff. Right now, I'm trying this with > > a Libranet 2.8 and a 2.4.21 kernel, but I have also tried Ubuntu and > > 2.6.x kernel. > > Hi Willie, > > Are you sure they will really work? Are the wifi cards "PCMCIA" or > "Cardbus"? I don't think Cardbus can actually translate to ISA? Or is > your "ISA/PCMCIA" adaptor really a "PCI/Cardbus" one and this really > should work? > > Does dmesg show anything after a "PCMCIA" card is inserted? Is hotplug > running? Does "lspci" show your PCMCIA (cardbus?) bridge? Do you have > the "pcmcia-cs" package installed?
In pursuing this problem, I find myself stuck in apt-get hell: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 Suggested packages: lilo kernel-doc-2.6.8 kernel-source-2.6.8 The following NEW packages will be installed: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 998 not upgraded. 3 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/15.5MB of archives. After unpacking 45.2MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 2: field name `\uffff' must be followed by colon E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) --- Prior to the above I did a fresh successful "apt-get update". I can't do anything with apt-get. My first guess is that somehow /var/lib/dpkg/available got corrupted. Can someone confirm that? And make suggestions on recovering? -- Willie, ONWARD! Through the fog! http://counter.li.org Linux registered user #228836 since 1995 Linux system uptime 398 days 18 hours 39 minutes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
