Along with others, the thought of having a fan-free firewall with battery backup and built-in display intrigues me a great deal.
I am aware that the minimum recommendations for Astaro is high, but I do think that me running 2.0 on a P200MMX shows that it IS possible for those of us who are not corporate users.
So... I tried today - to figure out a way to install the pcmcia package.
Installed the pluspack - sure - nice.
Installed a 2.4.8 kernel tree (pcmcia package requires some files).
Installed and compiled pcmcia 3.1.29 - surely - by specifying the kernel tree path and a separate module path, I was able to install things.
(For those using the pluspack, you should make a softlink from /opt/bin/cc to /opt/bin/gcc - some setups expect that... but I guess you already knew).
I am no expert on pcmcia on linux - by no means...so someone more experienced may know the answers where I got stuck.
Anyways...there was no pcmcia initializing script, so I tried to insmod pcmcia_core.o - no problems.
then I start cardmgr - no problems either (apparently).
cardctl status however - reports this:
no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
which is true though, as there are no references to the pcmcia device in /proc/devices
Perhaps this is something that needs to be compiled into the kernel? I have no clue... :-)
When I try to insmod the 3c589_cs.o driver for the network card - I just get these errors:
3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol register_pccard_driver
3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol unregister_pccard_driver
Any thoughts? Tips? Hints? Am I trying something impossible?
Ørjan
...always on the search for something more :-)