RE: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia

["Daevid Vincent" <daevid@daevid.com>]

All I know is that without the USE="pcmcia" the little card that I shove in
the side of my notebook didn't get a module installed... ;-) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Fish [mailto:bigfish@asmallpond.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 4:24 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng 
> default to +pcmcia
> 
> Daevid Vincent wrote:
> 
> >Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my 
> astonishment
> >that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 
> 90% of the
> >wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. So I had to edit my
> >  
> >
> 
> I think you have gotten 16-bit legacy PCMCIA and 32-bit Cardbus 
> confused.  For laptop wireless cards, all of the cards sold 
> today, and I 
> would guess that 99% of all cards _in use_, are 32-bit 
> cardbus, which do 
> not require pcmcia-cs or the pcmcia tools.
> 
> -Richard
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