On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 00:18 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > 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.
To start PCMCIA is indeed harmful on a few computers which have PCMCIA, but I haven't heard of any problems on computers which do not have it. > Sure, and they will know they do and answer 'yes'. Why do you assume that they will even see the question? > 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'. They are not. > In general I actually agree, but then again: why ask the question at all, even > at medium or low priority? As I said, because there are problems on a few computers which do have PCMCIA. -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
