On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 11:08, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> I have never had any use for the yenta_socket driver that most distros seem to 
> default to.  It screws up my ability to use wireless cards.  I have found 
> that if I use i82365 instead of yenta, my wireless pcmcia cards just work.
> 
> In Mandrake 8.2 and all previous, I would simply edit the 
> /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file and replace PCIC=yenta_socket to PCIC=i82365 and 
> that was that.  On 9.0 it has apparently decided that I don't get to do what 
> I want such that when I edit the pcmcia file as described and restart pcmcia, 
> I get a message that it is using yenta_socket instead (so there!).  
> 
> How do I FORCE MDK 9.0 to let me use i82365 in place of the ever-broken yenta?
> 
> praedor
> 


Praedor,

  You are in luck... I just figured this one out myself.  Ok when I
opened harddrake I found that (under Bridges and System Controllers) I
had the following 

PCI1450 PC card Cardbus Controller

Yours will vary but it should be close enough to make sense.  This is
the chip that controls your pci to pcmcia bridge.  

Now cd /usr/share/ldetect-lst and copy pcitable to pcitable.bkp (just in
case)

vi (or whatever editor you like) pcitable and find your card in the list
(in my case I search for PCI1450) Once you find this line/lines, you
will see "yenta_socket"  you need to change this to i82365. (Be careful
here as it uses tabs not spaces between columns.)  Save this file and
then cd to /etc/sysconfig and edit the pcmcia file.  Change
PCIC=yenta_socket to PCIC=i82365 and save.  Then either use service
pcmcia restart or I prefer /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart and it should now
pick it up as i82365 not yenta_socket.  At least it does for me.  (dmesg
should tell you if it's right or not.)

James



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