Aaron Peromsik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
> 

[...]

> 1. There's a typo or two in /usr/lib/libDrakX/network/network.pm line
> 271 -- the "orinico" and "orinico_cs" should be "orinoco" and
> "orinoco_cs" respectively. (I'm using the orinoco driver on this
> machine until I get drakconnect working with prism2; the default
> wvlan_cs driver doesn't work for me at all. On some other machines I
> am using the prism2_plx driver which I have configured by
> hand... eventually I'll want drakconnect to do it.)

typos are fixed. thanx.

> 2. When working with PCMCIA network cards, the drivers seem to be
> filtered out from the list which gets presented at this traceback:
> 
>       
>interactive::ask_from_listf_no_check('interactive::gtk=HASH(0x8e43ab4)','','Which
> network/main driver should I
> try?','CODE(0x8f396ec)','ARRAY(0x8f7795c)') called at
> /usr/lib/libDrakX/any.pm line 711
>       
>any::load_category__prompt('interactive::gtk=HASH(0x8e43ab4)','network/main|usb')
> called at /usr/lib/libDrakX/any.pm line 643
>       any::load_category('interactive::gtk=HASH(0x8e43ab4)','network/main|usb',1,1)
> called at /usr/lib/libDrakX/network/ethernet.pm line 177
>       network::ethernet::configureNetwork('HASH(0x8c3ebf0)','HASH(0x8e4bda8)',0)
> called at /usr/lib/libDrakX/network/ethernet.pm line 62
>       
>network::ethernet::configure_lan('HASH(0x8085264)','HASH(0x8c3ebf0)','HASH(0x8e4bda8)',0)
> called at /usr/lib/libDrakX/network/netconnect.pm line 222
> 
> So the user has no chance of picking the right driver if they want to
> configure a PCMCIA card. (See module::load_category, as called from
> any::load_category, where it looks like PCMCIA cards are filtered from
> the list.)
> 
> In expert mode you can pick "prev" to get to the screen for
> configuring the detected PCMCIA card, or you can pick a wrong card and
> pick "Next" until it fails to load, after which point you get to
> configure the right card. In non-expert mode I didn't find a way to
> get there. Hardly intuitive.
> 
> I don't think I'll be looking at that part while I try to make prism2
> cards behave, so I thought I'd mention it.

Dchaumette ? 

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