All I know is that without the USE="pcmcia" the little card that I shove in the side of my notebook didn't get a module installed... ;-)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Fish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 4:24 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng > default to +pcmcia > > Daevid Vincent wrote: > > >Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my > astonishment > >that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. > 90% of the > >wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. So I had to edit my > > > > > > I think you have gotten 16-bit legacy PCMCIA and 32-bit Cardbus > confused. For laptop wireless cards, all of the cards sold > today, and I > would guess that 99% of all cards _in use_, are 32-bit > cardbus, which do > not require pcmcia-cs or the pcmcia tools. > > -Richard > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
