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James wrote:

> How to know which modules?  

pcmcia_core and ds are compulsory.  i82365 might also be
compulsory (will have to trial+error that one).  The
remaining modules are optional and depend on which NIC
(or other) card you want to use.

> And the card database will be gleaned from a newer release 
> of modules, to include those that are most common?

The modules will come from Slackware 7.1 (to match the kernel).
The purpose of database is tell cardmgr which module is required
for a particular brand/model of card.  We can include newly 
released cards in the database as long as they use a module
in Slackware 7.1.  However, space is an issue, so we don't want 
to bloat the database with cards that nobody is likely to use.

> Starting pcmcia services 

In Slackware that is done by rc.pcmcia (a script)

> under BL2 invoked several commands  (5, as I recall) that 
> were not satisfied.  How do you plan on getting around that?  

We will be doing our own script.

> Will the pcmcia package we're cobbling together obviate 
> some of those commands?

I hope to bypass all of them.

Cheers,
Steven