On Friday 21 May 2004 23:46, Per Olofsson wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 22:58 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > 2. Starting PCMCIA on systems that don't support it (and even on systems > > that do) may cause freezes and other unwanted effects. > > Really? I have never heard that before. If it's true, it's still > possible to do detection of PCI-PCMCIA bridges.
If there is no harm, then why ask the question at all? And what's all the fuzz about boot option hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false and excluding IRQ's and address ranges in /target/etc/pcmcia/config.opts all about? I've seen quite a few installation-reports on that. I thought the question was added recently exactly to avoid these problems, but maybe I just don't know enough about it. > > 3. Even a lot of laptops supporting PCMCIA don't really need it activated > > during first stage installation (e.g. if they have an onboard/internal > > network card). > > But some do. Sure, and they will know they do and answer 'yes'. > And if PCMCIA is detected during the installation, it is > installed into the target system automatically, so it's useful even if > you're not using it as installation media. So, if I answer 'yes' on my desktop and I have _no_ PCMCIA support on my system, are pcmcia kernel modules and pcmcia-cs installed or are they not? If they _are_ installed, that would be a very good reason for a default 'no'. > In general I think things should Just Work, if possible. d-i detects > most other hardware and does a lot of things without asking (when run > with high priority) so I don't see why PCMCIA should be treated any > differently. In general I actually agree, but then again: why ask the question at all, even at medium or low priority? P.S. I always run the installer at DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium because I find I can't properly configure my apt sources list otherwise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
