Slak dead? That's ridiculous. v3.5 was released July '98 with kernel
version 2.0.34, X11 v3.3.2, egcs-1.03 (a better gcc) gcc-2.8.1, etc.
See http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/slackwar.htm fomodetails. You can
download it from ftp.cdrom.com, and of course, it's also available on cd
from http://www.cheapbytes.com/ for $1.99.
I have Slakware 3.5 running on my Inspiron 3200, and it works wonderfully.
I installed from the bareapm.i and pcmcia.gz boot/rootdisk, and as I
recall, it had no problem recognizing my 3C562D/3C563D lan+modem card. And
I was especially pleased to see that redhat even put up a targzipped
version of the neomagic X server for us anti-rpm people!
And Brad, as far as problems installing the pcmcia-cs package, it helps if
you have the linux kernel source tree installed. Maybe you didn't install
the source, or maybe you didn't install it where you told the pcmcia-cs
install script you installed it?
Sorry for replying to two people at time...
At 09:55 AM 9/11/98 -0700, you wrote:
>i would suggest you do an FTP install of RedHat 5.1 or Debian or
>something other than slakware... seeing as the last release was so long
>ago, it is my opinion that slak is dead. if you dont wanna do a ftp
>install then i suggest you get the InfoMagic 6cd set (usually most
>computer/comp book stores have this) or go to www.cheapbytes.com and
>order a cd for like 1.99$....
>
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>On 11 Sep, Stewart, Brad wrote:
>> Hello, my name is Brad Stewart. I recently downloaded a copy of linux
>> (slackware v3.3) off the internet. I am trying to install it on my
>> inspiron 3000 and am having dificulties getting it to recognize my 3com
>> 3c589D PCMCIA card.
>>
>> I downloaded the PCMCIA kernel mod PCMCIA-cs-3.0.0.5, gunziped and
>> untared it. Moved into the resulting directory and run "make config."
>> What follows is the results:
>>
>> I take the defaults on all prompts.
>> Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux]
>>
>> expr: syntax error
>> The kernel source tree is version ...
>> WARNING: The current kernel is actually version 2.0.30
>> The current kernel build date is Tue Jun 24 03:49:52 1997
>>
>> It continues to ask me questions, which I take the defaults for:
>> The last question that I answer is the "Read from the current kernel"
>> question. It pauses for a few seconds. Then I get:
>>
>> Extracting kernel symbole versions ...
>> kernel config optsions ...
>> stuff
>> stuff
>> stuff
>>
>> This package requires either a 1.2 series 1.2.8 or higher, a 1.3 series
>> 1.3.30 or higher, any 1.99
>> series kernel or any 2.0 or 2.1 series kernel.
>>
>> Make: * * * [config] error 1
>>
>> and then I'm back at the command prompt.
>>
>> I played around with this all day yesterday, trying different versions
>> of the PCMCIA patch and got the same results on three different
>> versions. I'm out of ideas, except maybe reloading linux. If nyone has
>> any suggestions it would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brad
>>
>>
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