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

[Richard Fish]

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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