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Re: [LUG] Debian install



On Friday 02 May 2003 10:30 pm, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> It spits out the manufacturer/card ID in hex in the system log, but it
> can't tally this to an identifier or device driver as it is not in the card
> database.  However, I think the linux drivers actually came with the card
> (wow!) so it should be a reasonably easy operation to configure it.
>
> Famous last words... ;-)

Indeed - I haven't really managed to get anywhere with it :-(

The drivers *didn't* actually come with the card, even though the README 
claims that it's "linux compatible".  However, the manufacturer kindly 
provides all of the drivers on a web site.  Shame then that it's a 
(windows-only) self extracting executable, really!

Anyway, the upshot of this is that I have added a new section in 
/etc/pcmcia/config corresponding to the hex ID values in the log.  However, 
despite having restarted the computer (how *do* you restart stuff in Debian?  
there's no init.d!) it still spits out the same hex values in the log.

Surely if it was taking any notice of me whatsoever, it would at least spit 
out the name of the card as I specified?  What am I doing wrong?

TIA,

Jon
PS:  I've just installed Mandrake 9.1 on my desktop, very pretty!  It's nice 
to see how everything is progressing.  KDE or Gnome didn't start when I tried 
upgrading my old (9.0) system - it got as far as "initialising system 
services" and stopped.  Couldn't find any logs for KDE, nor did it spit out 
anything useful on the command line when I invoked it from there.  Worked 
fine when I reformatted and reinstalled, though!  <ducks>

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