Faux Pas III wrote:
>
> Note: this is the same laptop mentioned above in the Maestro 2E
> thread above, so the same weird-ass power behavior applies here.
>
> When on AC power, everything is dandy with PCMCIA. When on
> battery power, PCMCIA device detection fails, emanating a lower
> than normal pitched beep, followed by an even lower beep.
> However, if the apm module is inserted, this makes it behave
> properly, but ONLY if the apm module was compiled with 'Make
> CPU idle calls when idle'. Yeah, I know it's ucked fup.
>
> Some possibly relevant details:
>
> 2.4.{14,15-pre{3,5}}
> pcmcia-cs-3.1.29
pcmcia-cs problems are reported to http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/
We encourage you to use the kernel's cardbus code instead :)
(CONFIG_PCMCIA and CONFIG_CARDBUS)
As a side note, with kernel cardbus support, you should no longer need
external utilities or external drivers. It should Just Work(tm).
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