On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 11:10:02AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > To me, in 2014, a _modern_ laptop is extremely unlikely to be using > >PCMCIA or YENTA. Or am I, again, totally mistaken ? I can see that > >PCCARD _might_ be needed for machines without PCMCIA, but I do not > >have any idea how that would be better worded (and, for the moment, > >zero experience of such things). > > I think I wrote that a long time ago. A modern kernel does not even have > YENTA or PCMCIA in the config (set or unset). My laptop dies have > > # CONFIG_PCCARD is not set > > so the text for wireless tools does need to be rewritten. > > My wireless from lspci is: > > 01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 > > -- Bruce > Mine is
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) which uses brcmsmac and the brcm/bcm43xx* firmware I doubt that I can contribute anything to rewriting the Wireless Tools text. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
