I have a laptop, with a pcmcia EP401 network card.
All linux distro with kernels <2.4.18 work fine.
HOwever I noticed, that if you used any of the new kernels including the 2.5.xx series, there are two major problems.
One problem is that some of the kernels do not load the device driver, even it it is compiled built-in.
The other is a major NFS releated problem.
After mounting a remote NFS drive, you can ls to the mounted drive on some kernels. Other kernels just crash the mounted drive. OR in some other kernels, once you run a file from that drive, the NFS client crashes. The laptop has to be rebooted.
I'v mixed and matched the distros with the kernels just to make sure it was the kernel.
On my desktop machine, everything is fine. So I'm guessing it to do with the pcmicia nic drivers or something.
Has anyone had the same problems. It seems that this issues is still not resolved.
All linux distro with kernels <2.4.18 work fine.
HOwever I noticed, that if you used any of the new kernels including the 2.5.xx series, there are two major problems.
One problem is that some of the kernels do not load the device driver, even it it is compiled built-in.
The other is a major NFS releated problem.
After mounting a remote NFS drive, you can ls to the mounted drive on some kernels. Other kernels just crash the mounted drive. OR in some other kernels, once you run a file from that drive, the NFS client crashes. The laptop has to be rebooted.
I'v mixed and matched the distros with the kernels just to make sure it was the kernel.
On my desktop machine, everything is fine. So I'm guessing it to do with the pcmicia nic drivers or something.
Has anyone had the same problems. It seems that this issues is still not resolved.