On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:23:13PM -0800, O. Sharp wrote: > Well, if so the installer is as ignorant of it as I am. :) lspci reports > the PCMCIA bridge as a Cirrus Logic CL 6729 (rev ee). I haven't found > any definitive list of which driver is used for which types of > controllers, but I did come across a Red Hat posting saying the CL 6729 > was driven by i82365 and not yentl: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34301#c5 > > Does this seem correct for Debian as well?
Quite likely, although I believe debian 2.4 kernels use pcmcia-cs drivers, in which case sarge with 2.4 kernel should install. I may remember wrong though. > That poster also offers a solution for their situation which (if I'm > reading it right) suggests making some changes in /etc/pcmcia.conf, but > since the installer didn't _create_ any /etc/pcmcia.conf here it doesn't > help me much, whether it's correct for my hardware or not. :) > > Here's the PCMCIA-oriented stuff from lspci -v: > > 0000:00:0d.0 PCMCIA bridge: Cirrus Logic CL 6729 (rev ee) > Flags: stepping, slow level > I/O ports at fcfc [disabled] [size=4] > > ...And here's something: I found a posting about CL 6729 drivers on a > Debian help list which looks pretty relevant, evidently a quote from the > author of the i82365 module: > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/01/msg00066.html) > > " > This is sort of a historical accident. Prior to 2.4 kernels, there > were only the pcmcia-cs driver modules. With 2.4, PCMCIA drivers > became part of the kernel tree but they were not 100% the same as the > pcmcia-cs drivers. One of the differences was that the CL 6729 bridge > was not supported by the kernel drivers. There is a CL 6729 driver > for the current 2.6 kernels but I think it is recent enough that it > probably is not in most current Linux distributions. > > It is possible to use the pcmcia-cs drivers with 2.4 (but not 2.6) > kernels. You would need to remove the kernel PCMCIA driver modules, > and then compile the pcmcia-cs package. > " > > Soooo... would I be right in guessing the updated CL 6729 drivers haven't > yet made it into the Debian installs I've tried (sarge and etch beta-1)? > If so, can you suggest an alternative? Install sarge using 2.4 kernel? Then upgrade to debian version you want, keeping the kernel, and then get kernel-source package for kernel you want and find patch for the cl 6729 driver and apply and build a new kernel to use. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
