Hi,

Buchan Milne, one of our Mandrake Cooker developers[1], has
noticed that his PCMCIA nic is no longer automatically detected
with our pcmcia-cs-3.2.4-based cooker distro. After some
searching, it seems that with the following patch he can "fix"
the problem:

--- /etc/pcmcia/config  2003-04-17 18:53:06.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/pcmcia/config.working  2003-08-29 14:26:50.000000000 +0200
@@ -796,6 +796,11 @@
   #manfid 0xffff, 0x1090
   bind "pcnet_cs"

+card "Surecom EP-427X 16bit 100/10M Ethernet Card"
+  version "CouplerlessPCMCIA", "100BASE"
+  #manfid 0xffff, 0x1090
+  bind "pcnet_cs"
+
 card "Asix AX88190 Fast Ethernet"
   version "Fast Ethernet", "16-bit PC Card", "*", "AX88190"
   #manfid 0x0149, 0xc1ab


I suggested adding some fallback in the config file, for example
the following line:

card "Ark Sky Link Express PA2600"
  manfid 0xffff, 0x1090
  bind "axnet_cs"


But even those lines are *after* the "version" based lines in the
pcmcia config file, they take precedence, so it's probably not
the way to go.

I'm sending this mail in order to know if there is any PCI
vendor/device ID "fallback" possible in the config file (it would
kill such regressions), and to inform you of the above patch to
pcmcia config.

My apologies if CVS has already changed regarding this issue.


Ref: 
[1] http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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