Getting pcmcia to work required that I start with an earlier kernel and
lay 2.1.99 on top of it, otherwise some needed header files weren't
there (kerneld.h?). My sound driver was a pain to load - it refused to
autoload and I had to insmod each part of the driver in the right order
(yes, I have conf.modules set up - and I think its right - I dunno).
Also, the PCMCIA drivers try to patch kernel drivers to remake them as
pcmcia modules, and this fails (was SCSI anyway - and I just wanted the
ne2000 pcmcia support).
Also, after using it awhile (X, RA, Netscape, Zircon, XV, various Xterms
- XIG X server with 40MB Ram on a laptop), I got a shell window that
locked up - so I closed it - after that I started getting fork() errors
- with some sort of resource allocation error. Not sure what I ran out
of, but I never had that problem under Linux b4 (SCO used to do it all
the time though and I'd have to tweak the kernel params). This was with
a single CPU system and an SMP kernel (which detected no SMP
capabilities anyway). I just klled the X server and rebooted with
2.0.33 (with the nestea patch)
Also, I think there was a recursive dir entry in /proc/bus, and
/proc/sound didn't show any sound support except a timer - and yet my
sound was working).
Just hoping 2.2.0 is fixed :)
Thanks,
Evan Langlois
ekl@fastlane.net
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