[ale] Using PCMCIA services under Suse 5.3 on Toshiba Satellite 490CDT

[Steve Lewis]

I installed Red Hat 5.2 on a new Toshiba Satellite 4010CDT before Christmas.
I experienced troubles with PCMCIA until I downloaded the latest version of
the PCMCIA drivers and compiled them into my kernel.  The Toshiba's have a
new PCMCIA controller chip set that require the newest drivers to work.  Red
Hat came with 3.0.5, but I didn't have any luck until I got 3.0.6.  In fact
3.0.7 just came out and cam be downloaded at
ftp://csb.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/  I've had problems with my network card,
but the documentation that came with the driver states that it is under
construction.  I'll be downloading 3.0.7 later today to see if it fixes my
card.  The updates seem to be coming out fairly quickly.

A good place to look for PCMCIA issues is
http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html

You should also check out the Linux laptop page at
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/

Hope this helps

Steve Lewis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Stephan
> Cerruti
> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 1999 7:58 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Using PCMCIA services under Suse 5.3 on
> Toshiba Satellite
> 490CDT
>
>
> I just instaled SuSE 5.3 on my Toshiba Satellite 490CDT. However, the
> pcmcia services don't seem to start up at boot. I cannot find
> an option
> in YasT to enable pcmcia services so I was wondering if anyone on the
> list had any experience with this.
>
> Also, does anyone know how to modify the XF86Config file so that it
> defaults to a higher resolution than 8 bpp? I know that I can use
> "startx -- -bpp 24" to do it manually but I want to have it does that
> without having to type so long a line. I am using kde as my window
> manager (in case that is useful).
>
> Thanks
> sc
>