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

I am still trying to make BL3.40 work with 32-bit PCMCIA (Cardbus) cards, 
including one fast (10/100MBit) 3com ethernet card that does work with 
DamnSmallLinux and two wireless ethernet cards both using the RTL8180 
modules that David kindly compiled for a 2.4.31 kernel.  I want to get the 
plain 3com working first.  I compiled my own kernel, and also pcmcia-cs 
latest version with Cardbus Y (cardbus.o module got compiled, along with 
things ending in _cb).  I tried adding cardbus.o to /etc/pcmcia/start and 
the module to config but the card was not recognized (as posted earlier).

Kernel 2.4 apparently has some bug that prevents it from finding Cardbus 
cards, or maybe I had things set up wrong when trying with my PCMCIA 
kernel.  The bare.i kernel would not work with the standard 10.2 PCMCIA 
modules.


Would some other Slackware 10.2 kernel work better?
Does anyone actually have a Cardbus card working with SW10.2 and kernel 
2.4.31?  I could only find references to problems with this kernel, and 
things working with 2.6.

Would it help to install Slackware 10.2?  I have a spare 3GB partition.

In the meantime we installed the Win98SE drivers for the Linksys card and 
need to try it at the library.  It crashed with FE and a friend 
found us an upgrade CD (which we had to supplement with our own 
unscratched one when actually installing the drivers - it wanted some 
extra file).  Every time I have to use Windows I am grateful for linux.

We also installed three packages for a Yahoo! Digital Camera, all of which 
disappeared into the depths of Win98, and a friend got the toy working 
with Microsoft Photo Imaging, treating it as a scanner.  But there was a 
button to capture camera and clear camera.  It has a 'video' mode of 
taking continual lower res shots.  (High res is about 300x200 pixels, 
making a 100K gif).  Serial transfer cable and it takes 'night' shots with 
4 infrared LEDs, without color, focused to the upper right of the 
viewfinder.

Would this work with SANE qcam scanner driver?

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org