Okay, I feel a little responsible for the latest bunch
of PCMCIA talk on the LRP list - NOT! It seems that
this a latent demand topic that a lot of people are
interested in. I see my need for this support as
fairly pressing, so I did a little feasability
experiment ...
Starting with the LRP 2.9.8 1440 idiot image with the
2.0.36 kernel, I then downloaded the .deb binary
packages for pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules for the
2.0.36 kernel from a site that actually still has
these for slink. After un-deb-ing and tar-gzip-ing
along with playing with the relative directories so
that they would untar properly relative to (root) "/",
these 2 "packages" loaded in just fine. Using Kelley
Murray's instructions posted a few days ago to the LRP
list, along with some reading on the PCMCIA HOW-TO at
sourceforge, I was able to get a PCMCIA modem card I
had sitting around to work properly! All this in an
afternoon, without compiling anything.
I believe that if I could use a 1680 Kb boot disk that
the whole thing would just fit. As it is, I have to
"rebuild" this every time I boot, as I haven't figured
out how to back it up yet. For some reason I can't
get a 1680 disk to work on this particular PC. And
there's no multiple disk support in LRP 2.9.8?
I have the impression that the difficulty with PCMCIA
is that it is partially kernel modules (which cannot
be "compiled-in" as far as I know) and partially other
code that would have glibc dependencies. I don't have
a running slink system to be able to compile the
latest PCMCIA stuff with a newer kernel, etc.
For now, I have a working system, so I am going to
proceed with my firewall plans.
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