| PackageDescription | PCMCIA Card Services for Linux
PCMCIA cards are commonly used in laptops to provide expanded
capabilities, such as modems, increased memory, etc. Some desktop PCs
can accept PCMCIA cards as well, although this is rare.
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This package provides the card manager daemon that can respond to card
insertion and removal events, loading and unloading drivers on demand.
It supports ``hot swapping'' of most PCMCIA cards, so cards can be
inserted and ejected at any time.
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The actual kernel modules required for this package are contained
in either the pcmcia-modules-<kernel version> package or the
kernel-pcmcia-modules-<kernel version> package, where <kernel
version> is the version of the kernel for which the modules have
been compiled. The pcmcia-modules-<kernel version> package contains
the drivers that were compiled from this package's source. The
kernel-pcmcia-modules-<kernel version> package contains the drivers
that compiled from the (version 2.4 or later) kernel source.
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Since version 2.4 (and later) kernels have their own drivers, they can
be built with their own PCMCIA support. Nevertheless, this package or
the hotplug package is still required to load and unload drivers on
demand.
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The ifupdown package can be used to configure PCMCIA network
interfaces. The wireless-tools package is required by many wireless
network adapters. The hotplug package is required by 2.4 (and later)
series kernels to use PCI (Cardbus) devices. |