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Re: I'm dissapointed in 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Roberts)
Wed Nov 18 15:40:30 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:40:09 -0700
From: Doug Roberts <roberts@tsasa.lanl.gov>
To: rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov
CC: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: <199811181955.LAA21130@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov> (message from Rick
Forrester on Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:55:14 -0800)
Reply-to: roberts@tsasa.lanl.gov
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Rick> Regretably I've been rather swamped & skipped by (and deleted) some
Rick> messages, so I don't have any listing of what you may have reported in
Rick> your effort to resolve the problem. Did you check /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
Rick> for correct values? Did you compile pcmcia_cs as a module? Did you
Rick> check to see that it had been loaded? Did you investigate the contents
Rick> of /var/log/messages? Did you review the PCMCIA-HOWTO? There's some
Rick> help in there, though a few details have been changed.
Yes to all the above. RedHat got back to me after my messge went out
and acknowledged that the pcmcia support in the 5.2 release does not
work, and that they are working on fixing the problem.
Rick> This whole last section smacks of "I'm going to take my ball & go
Rick> home." I doubt that was your intention; but you seem irritated but
Rick> unwilling to provide specifics.
Actually, the 6 points in my message _were_ specifics. I think we
deserve better from a commercial distribution. Hell, the _free_
distributions are even better (by that, I mean that they are less buggy).
--Doug
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