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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:34:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Constantine Gavrilov <const-g@optibase.com>
cc: Anton.Safonov@bestlinux.net, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA problems on IBM ThinkPad 600X
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Constantine Gavrilov wrote:
> There are problems with some PCMCIA drivers included in the kernel. For 
> example, support for cardbus 3com cards was moved to 3c59x.o driver. It 
> works (on 600X at least) only of you compile it in. It will not work as 
> a module.

It works just fine as a module.  What problems are you seeing?


> I think a much better solution right now is to use drivers from 
> pcmcia-cs package. It always works. If you do not configure any support 
> for pcmcia in your kernel, when you build pcmcia-cs it will build kernel 
> drivers from its own source tree. Just make sure you use the latest 
> version. This also allows configuration files interoperbility with 2.2.x 
> kernel, if you wish to use that as well.

pcmcia-cs does not always work, and it puts your nice 32-bit hardware
into 16-bit compatibility mode AFAIK.

If you have 2.4 bugs, please report them instead of spewing B.S.

	Jeff



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