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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> David Moberg wrote:
> > What new features are being planned?

> 2.2.26 kernel and modules
> IDE module for PCMCIA (cardmgr now finds CF)


We have a 486 laptop with 12MB and an 8MB PCMCIA memory card.

Can you also put memory_cs in config (remarked out?), even if the module 
won't fit on the disk?

Also some other more common PCMCIA ethernet cards in config.  I posted the 
info for mine, a 10MBit card.

> Sindi wrote:
> > Besides kernel 2.2.26 (with sound and usb support)
> > what are you adding or subtracting?

> To make room for the slighly larger kernel and the
> new IDE module, I removed the plip module (although
> it can still be used as an add-on).  I also deleted
> some little-used /dev

Please add the /dev for 720K floppy disk support.
I can still get lots of them free.

To use the PCMCIA adaptor for CF memory card I needed another /dev - hde1 
or maybe it was hde4.  I don't know why the card was hde when the laptop 
had only one hard drive (hda).

Can you provide at least an additional (add-on) scsi kernel for 2.2.26 
with support for scsi boot and zip drives (scsi_mod and sd_mod built in) 
and support for sg and sr as modules (for use with scanners and even IDE 
CD-burners)?  This does not have to fit on the 2-floppy version.  David's 
2.4.31 includes this.

Also /dev/sr0.  That is how sr_mod detects my CD burners.
Or a symlink to sga or scd0 or something.

I have not, that I know of, ever used sbpcd* spx scd0 ttyS4 vcs0-4
vcsa0-4, does anyone else use them?

> Cheers,
> Steven