From: Michele Andreoli ([email protected])
Date: Sat Aug 25 2001 - 10:12:34 CEST
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:31:14AM +0300, Vesa-Pekka Palmu nicely wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:43:42PM +0200, Michael Gruner nicely wrote:
> > > hello michele,
> > >
> > > do you know a workaround for this problem or any idea
> > > of fixing it ?
> > >
> >
> > A workaround? Unfortunately, this is not a bug, but a matter of
> > unexistent and/or out-of-date drivers. PCMCIA is a fast-growing
> > technology, compared to muLinux and its kernel, where software is
> > often obslolescent, and more often only a demo.
>
> So the only way to "fix" this is to compile a updated version of the
> PCMCIA package so that it will run under mu or try to find a
> precompiled binaries that are linked to libc5 that should do it, but
> donn't try this with a ram based muLinux.
>
Reality is more hard, unfortunately. New drivers, usually, are based
upon new kernels and new libraries; so they simply do not compile and
do not work.
For this raison it is impossible to have such thing such PCMCIA, USB
etc in muLinux and other 2.0.* mini system.
Michele
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