[CLUE-Tech] 2.4 and PCMCIA

[jjcohen]

As far as I understand, 2.4 includes PCMCIA support, so you shouldn't the
pcmcia-cs package. Am I missing something?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Match Grun" <match at dimensional.com>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] 2.4 and PCMCIA


> I managed to build and install 2.4. However, I got conflicts with IRQ's.
> This could be a result of not enough interrupts to support my hardware
> and the USB which was enabled. startx immediately hung X. Maybe the IRQ
> used by the video card was one of the conflicts.
>
> Also, the modules were not loaded. I think that there are other
> utilities
> (depmod, insmod, etc) that need to be upgraded for use with 2.4. I'll
> just wait for a new 2.4 distro.
>
> Match
>
> joel wrote:
> >
> > 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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