When I use Slackware.,.....

[fod]

Well I am thinking about running Slackware or Debian in the near future, and I am confused how you would set up services like Pcmcia-cs etc?
Could you help/

[X_console]

Well, not sure about Debian, but for Slackware, all you need to do is to install the pcmcia.tgz package and it'll have everything configured for you. Then all you need to do is insert your pcmcia card and if it's supported you'll hear a beep and you're set to go.

[ph34r]

Slack detected and setup my pcmcia stuff on install no problem...

[Strike]

Debian should recognize it too (never used Debian on a laptop). It has a pcmcia-cs package.

[jkm]

pcmcia-cs is a default package installed in the base system, but since you don't need it on a desktop machine you have the option to remove it in the post-installation routine. so just say "no" you don't want to remove it, and it will run on bootup.

should you want to recompile your kernel you will need to recompile pcmcia-modules, so apt-get install pcmcia-source, cd to /usr/src and tar zxvf pcmcia-cs.tar.gz, then cd to your configured kernel source. make sure you have kernel-package installed and type, make-kpkg modules_image --rev=`hostname`.1 and let it do it's stuff. afterwards you should have a .deb in ../ which you can install.

[MrNewbie]

I installed Debian 2.2 r0 on a laptop and it worked perfectly without any modification using my PCMCIA ethernet card. Same goes for Slackware.

[ 21 May 2001: Message edited by: MrNewbie ]

[fod]

thanks

[Saptech]

Does the latest version of Slackware have a GUI installation routine? And what is the lastest kernel version?

[TheGimp]

slackware doesn't need a gui install :p

this (http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386) is the ChangeLog for the next version of Slackware. It has 2.2.19 and 2.4.4 kernels.

You can get a bootable iso image of current @ ftp://128.173.184.249/Linux/ISO/slackware-current-weekly/ A new snapshot is released each wednesday.

[Tyr-7BE]

Both Slack and Debian are running menu-based installs. I'd really like to see a GUI, even if it doesn't change the content...it'll just be less scary to newbies. Maybe when I get better at programming that's what I'll do.

[fod]

I'd prefer not to see a GUI install becasue Linux is becoming to easy :(

[fod]

One last question, when installing slackware will it auto detect things like modems etc?