[CLUE-Tech] 2.4 and PCMCIA

joel cjabbe at uswest.net
Thu Jan 18 14:46:16 MST 2001


Grant Johnson wrote:

> Well I installed 2.4 at home on my workstation.  No troubles.  So, I
> decided to try it on my laptop since it has USB and all.  It seems to die
> badly trying to start PCMCIA.  I removed PCMCIA, built the kernel to
> include it, then built the pcmcia-cs packages to go along with it.  Well,
> when it got to the startup script and tried to get pcmcia going, it locked
> solid.  It must have been spinning the CPU at 100% because the cooling fan
> came on.
>
> I was using 2.4.0, and pcmcia-cs-3.1.23 which says it is supposed to work
> with 2.4.  I am pretty sure I just didn't install something right.
>
> Any ideas?  Anyone else try PCMCIA with 2.4?
>
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I have been able to get PCMCIA & USB working just fine on a Sony Vaio laptop,
but with the 2.2.18 kernel. I can't run 2.4.0 on the laptop at all. It just
hangs.




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