Last night I went through full installs on my Desktop and Laptop... The laptop has 2 PCMCIA cards: a generic serial and a Linksys WPC11. Beta2 detected the serial card, but couldn't identify the WPC11, presumably because WPC11 support only showed up in pcmcia-cs-3.1.33, and MDK is still using 3.1.31. Beta3 did not detect the serial card either (at least it didn't come up checked as a target for network configuration).
I tried installing 3.1.33 over the installed kernel, but this is not as simple as it was in 8.1 (the last MDK I put on the laptop), because you've moved the location of the PCMCIA drivers in the /lib/modules tree (the pcmcia-cs package puts the pcmcia directory right under /lib/modules/version). Or maybe, since I recompiled the 8.1 kernel in conjunction with doing this, I just blew away the current /lib/modules and let make modules_install rebuild it from scratch. Anyway, after installing 3.1.33 over the installed MDK kernel, it can't even find Card Services. I suspect that support of the WPC11 requires 3.1.33 for source changes, not just an update to the config file. When the network install detected nothing (neither modem nor lan came up checked), I manually selected modem, and cancelled out of the install after selecting ttyS0. When it redisplayed the device selection dialog, I now had LAN selected with the phrase "ethernet card detected" (this was with the installation 3.1.31). However, orinoco_cs is still not in the driver selection list, even though there is an orinoco_cs.o.gz in /lib/modules. On the desktop machine, beta2 detected and had almost no problem with both my USB HP 3330 MFP (model selection came up as "Raw" even though the 3330 was in the list) and Epson Stylus Color 600. Beta3 did the Epson OK, but in trying to install the HP the "checking device and configuring hpoj" prompt was followed by the (previously reported) "An error occurred. Could not open /etc/ptal/mlc:usb:HP_LaserJet_3330 for writing". However, I fired up MCC after the install, and tried to install the HP then, and it worked (almost) fine, except for a Signature Verification Error on the libsane-hpoj0-0.90-2mdk.i586.rpm package, claiming "No GPG Signature in package". I told it to continue anyway, and all was well. The ISA SoundBlaster card is still not handled. Install tells me to run sndconfig later. When I do, I get the "no PnP or PCI" message, select SoundBlaster from the list, take the default port, etc., and get Error running modprobe: /lib/modules/2.4.19-3mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz init-module: no such device modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-3mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod sound-slot-0 failed The sb.o driver is what has always worked previously. Matrox G550 video is better in beta3. Beta2 screwed up the xf86config file and forced the display to 640x480. The install dialog still comes up with 640x480 after having me select 1280x1024@70 Hz, but after I reselect 1280x1024, it retains it, and upon post-install reboot, the display comes up as 1280x1024. One odd thing is that I got no prompt to test the configuration --- the install just proceeded from the resolution/colors dialog to the software update one.
