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All I know is that without the USE="pcmcia" the little card that I shove in |
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the side of my notebook didn't get a module installed... ;-) |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Richard Fish [mailto:bigfish@××××××××××.org] |
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> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 4:24 AM |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng |
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> default to +pcmcia |
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> Daevid Vincent wrote: |
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> >Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my |
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> astonishment |
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> >that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. |
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> 90% of the |
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> >wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. So I had to edit my |
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> I think you have gotten 16-bit legacy PCMCIA and 32-bit Cardbus |
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> confused. For laptop wireless cards, all of the cards sold |
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> today, and I |
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> would guess that 99% of all cards _in use_, are 32-bit |
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> cardbus, which do |
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> not require pcmcia-cs or the pcmcia tools. |
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> -Richard |
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