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Message from Steven
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> Peter Rus wrote:
>   
>> Okay, I have found the modules and put them in place. 
>> Now I encounter a new problem. I need pciutils' lspci 
>> to check out which pcmcia chipset I use. 
>>     
>
> Really?  According to the lspci manpage:
> ---------------------------------------------
> lspci is a utility for displaying information 
> about all PCI buses in the system and all 
> devices connected to them.
> ---------------------------------------------
> What does that have to do with PCMCIA?  There
> is nothing on the lspci manpage about PCMCIA.
>   
Well, after all the pcmcia bridge is just a bridge that connects pcmcia
cards to the pci bus, so it should display the pcmcia bus. AFAIK it has
done so on all other laptops I have
>> and I need to know the pcmcia chipset to find a 
>> module for it 
>>     
>
> Why?  AFAIK the module needs to match the PCMCIA 
> card not the PCMCIA chipset on the laptop.
>
>   
Well, I get the following error when I start the pcmcia service:
"ds: no socket drivers loaded!"

I am going to reinstall baslin right now because I might have fiddled
around a bit too much with modules. Just to be sure.