pcmcia-cs dilemma

[Net Llama]

--- Vern W Heesch <vheesch at qwest.net> wrote:
> On Monday 04 March 2002 08:57 am, you wrote:
> > --- Vern W Heesch <vheesch at qwest.net> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 03 March 2002 05:52 pm, you wrote:
> > > > --- Vern W Heesch <vheesch at qwest.net> wrote:
> > > > > Well, I installed pcmcia-cs and it didn't work. Now it won't
> boot
> > >
> > > that
> >
> >  What doers "it didn't work" mean?
> >
> > =====
> When it got to pcmcia during boot it said ...oops, followed by some

So you never tested it before rebooting??

> cryptic 
> numbers and then kernel panic.
> I gave up on trying to get 2.4.18 to work with pcmcia. Needed the
> machine and 
> the pcmcia-cs messed up the kernel-pcmcia for 2.4.8 so I removed it
> all and 
> reinstalled kernel-pcmcia for 2.4.8.

That was unneccsary, since it was the newer modules that were causing
the Oops, and not the entire package.  How did you "remove" it all
anyway, if you installed from tarball?

> Gonna just wait for a distro to come out with that kernel.

Have a nice long wait.

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