PCMCIA support in FAI?

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Thu Aug 1 10:32:53 CEST 2002


>>>>> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:35:13 -0400 (EDT), Paul Nijjar <pnijjar at utm.utoronto.ca> said:

    >         I have set up FAI to install a customized version of
    >         woody. Now
    > I want to use the FAI installer to install our distribution onto
    > a laptop via the laptop's PCMCIA network card.

I think that's not possible. FAI does not use a initrd. Also the
kernel must have the network card driver build into it and it must be
activated without using any scripts. AFAIK pcmcia driver need some
scripts and a filesystem for enabling any drivers.

-- 
Gruss Thomas



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