It's kinda historical behaviour for redhat, I think. pcmcia was always broken for me since the phoebe betas. They are concentrating on bigger server hardware, and the laptop support gets secondary attention. On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 20:10, Audioslave - 7M3 - Live wrote: > Z wrote: > > I had to install a kernel from scratch on my vaio fx120 to get a working > > pcmcia. The present 2.4.21-ac2 looks like a great candidate, since it > > has the latest ACPI bits. I'm using 2.5.68 and it rocks. > > > > I installed the 2.5.68 onto my desktop and it performs well. I was > wondering if there would be any advantage to running the version on an > old toshiba laptop. (233 MHz / 64 Megs of memory. > > Currently, I'm running the kernel that Arjan sent out a link to his > directory. It works pretty much the same as the latest non-developmental > kernel. > > I was having trouble with the older kernel recognizing my ethernet card. > (version from RHL 8.0). I was wondering if the person having troubles > has the latest pcmcia rpm that supports his particular kernel version. > also, I was wondering how integrated the interworkings are for the > kernel and the psmcis version required. > > Why do older kernels fail to work with newer kernel-pcmcia-cs (I > believe) versions? > > Jim > > > > -- > Under every stone lurks a politician. > -- Aristophanes -- Z <zleite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
