Re: 1.4RC1 & PCMCIA

Mark Gordon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Organization Not very often
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:36:40 +0200
Martijn Dekkers <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, i've got the same, but i'm not sure if the SMART2 module oopsing
> is really related to the pcmcia issue. Way I figure is that there are
> no pcmcia modules on the iso. The dox state, literally:
> 
> If you have a PCMCIA network card, you will need to do some additional
> trickery.
> 
> Code listing 4
> 
> # insmod pcmcia_core
> # insmod i82365
> # insmod ds
> # cardmgr -f
> 
> But there is no pcmcia_core, i82365 or ds on the iso. Neither on the
> stage 2 or 3 tarballs.
> 
> So the party really ends there - no pccards, no network, no gentoo :-(

You could always do a minimal Slackware install and bootstrap yourself
from that. It's what I had to do with my notebook because I can't have
both CDROM and NIC as the same time due to its physical limitations.
-- 
Mark Gordon
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