Dear All
> I've not tried SuSE - and it's pretty unlikely I'll try it - but we had
> awful trouble with SuSE and Red Hat's PCMCIA support here...
I was afraid that someone might say this :(
My own thing and those of my associates is that we strongly object to
having to ask questions of a Cray technician at Manchester Computing
Centre to get hold of some ideas about how to get the PCMCIA drivers
to work in Debian. Even he has problems understanding what to do and
he's the fella who wrote FDISK.
Myself and a friend have installed Debian 2.2 r2 into his USI
Taiwanese notebook. These are very much like a Toshiba clone. He
cannot get someone to tell him how to get the PCMCIA drivers to start
up.
We find that there are two voltages for PCMCIA cards. There are 3volt
and 5 volt. Whichever one you get is a complete lottery which is
decided by the MS Windows salesman who sells the notebook to you -
here in the UK there is no support for Linux on the notebook. You
have to do it yourself and without help from anywhere. So, you are
screwed before you start.
This is the end of six months of investigation into configuration
problems and notebooks. We've tried all sorts of hardware and
software.
Still can't get a Debian notebook to boot without a NASA certified
computing expert to tell us what to do.
Im afraid that this is the best effort that an international team of
engineers and computer scientists can manage in the UK.
I have actually encountered a Debian fan from the Isle of Wight who
can get a notebook going first time. But, he does admit that he can
do that because he's hardly ever done anything else.
Thanks
Richard
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