Hi,
Here's a little word of warning.
I've got a Presario 1640 laptop with a pcmcia scsi card & network
card.
Using the Mandrake 5.3 CD everything works flawlessly with no
effort on my part.
With the Mandrake 6.0 CD from linuxcentral.com,the kernel wouldn't
recognize the pcmcia cards.
With several Red Hat 6.0 CDs the cards were recognized but the
scsi driver spat out error after error and wouldn't function.
With the Mandrake 6.0 cd inside the Powerpack edition everything
once again works flawlessly.
Caldera 2.2 also failed as well.. actually craping out during the
install!
I tried multiple times with each OS version and got the same
result. None of these OSs could see/find the cards during install, so I
alwalys said I didn't need PCMCIA support during install.
SUSE 6.2 was the only Linux I found that sucessfully found the
stuff during the installation.
Neal Richter
