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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:37:58 +0200
From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
To: Bas Mevissen <ml@basmevissen.nl>
Cc: Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.xx and configuring PCMCIA cards without cardutils
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 05:06:38PM +0200, Bas Mevissen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For a small computer, I want to use PCMCIA compiled into the kernel. I 
> only have 1 network card (fixed) in a PCMCIA slot. The kernel should 
> boot (from disk) with a NFS root. Because I want to keep things as small 
> as possible, I want to go without an initrd with cardutils.
> 
> So I'm wondering how to configure the network card from kernel space, if 
> possible at all.

Unfortunately, this is neither possible with 2.4. or 2.6. at the moment, but
there's work going on [for 2.6.+ only] which will eventually lead to such 
possibilities.

	Dominik