On Thu, 24 May 2001, Alex Suzuki wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I plan to buy a new Acer Notebook (Travelmate 525 TEV) with a > 700 Mhz PIII and 256M Ram. > I am currently running debian woody on my desktop pc and I love > it, so I will also install Debian on the laptop. I am a bit > confused about the pcmcia-cs package, could someone explain > this to me? I think generic PCMCIA support has to be turned on > in the kernel, but pcmcia-cs suggests pcmcia-modules-* packages, > which are for specific 2.2.1x kernels. I want to use a 2.4 kernel, > do I have to compile pcmcia-cs myself?
For the 2.4 kernel series, there are two sets of PCMCIA modules: the ones from pcmcia-cs (in which the modules would end up in the pcmcia-modules-* package), and the ones which are included in the kernel itself. AFAIK the pcmcia-cs modules support more cards than the kernel modules do. I'm not sure if the kernel-image-2.4.* packages in unstable include pcmcia support; I just compile my own kernels. But if it is included, you won't need any pcmcia-modules-* package. Either way, whichever set of modules you choose, you'll need the pcmcia-cs package, since this includes the support utilities, such as the card manager, etc. The pcmcia-cs package will work fine with whatever version of the kernel you're using. HTH -- Hubert Chan Research Associate Prediction in Interacting Systems (MITACS-PINTS) University of Alberta Office: CAB 522 Ph: 492-4394 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
