386's and X and more

2000-04-21 Thread John Parejko
Actually (and this may be a bit off topic, but anyway), Debian 2.1 is running just fine on the 386 laptop that I previously mentioned. I get out a book to read when I want to run dselect, but that isn't too bad, cuz I've pretty much got it setup the way that I want it right now. Only problem will

Re: PCMCIA /dev nodes

2000-04-21 Thread Germano Leichsenring
Well, I mean devices which can be created with: mknod /dev/pcmcia0 c 254 0 mknod /dev/pcmcia1 c 254 1 If you make these devices, you can try: cs_status_t status; fd = open("/dev/pcmcia1", O_RDONLY); ioctl(fd, DS_GET_STATUS, &status); and get the status of the card, there are a couple of other fu

Re: PCMCIA /dev nodes

2000-04-21 Thread Germano Leichsenring
Oh, I understand now... I'm using kernel 2.2.14, and probably pcmcia doesn't have a number assigned yet. Then, the SUID method is the only way to go until the number gets standardized. Thanks. > sen ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sen> ah, i didn't know about major number 254 -- but, accord