Re: tlug: The Debian Potato

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "CS" == Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com> writes:

    CS> On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:29:43AM +0900, Austin K. Kurahone
    CS> wrote:
    >> *gasp* Hmm and pcmcia support has been integrated into the
    >> Linux kernel since when???

    CS> Since last July or so (Linus tried to install on his new
    CS> notebook, failed, and implemented in-kernel support.  Pissed
    CS> off Dave Hinds ;).  It's only with the 2.3.4x kernels that the
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    CS> in-kernel support has really become useable.

Well, that's news to me.  I'd heard some noise about this, but I
don't follow linux-activists, and the urusai types didn't know what
they were talking about, just that David had his nose out of joint.

I don't entirely blame him, actually, although he probably should have
dual-licensed at least the pcmcia_core etc code.

    CS> Still have to install pcmcia-cs, however ... just for the
    CS> daemons, the drivers themselves are built during the 'make
    CS> modules' kernel build phase.

And this has been available in conventional distributions since 2nd
quarter 2002, right?

I'm sorry, for practical purposes Hinds's pcmcia-cs is still required
for bootstrapping.  Austin, do you support PCMCIA network installs?  I
thought not.

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