> devfs and the PCMCIA utilities appear to dislike one another as well. I
> was getting a hard machine lockup when I inserted a CF card on my Dell
> laptop (2.4.1-XFS). Tried all sorts of things and then disabled DevFS
> (now that device nodes work I could do that!:-) and the Card Services
> now works and I can read my CF cards with out instant death.
I am seeing a similar problem: when I insert and remove pcmcia cards on my
dell laptop, the machine locks up hard (can't even get into kdb). I just
tried rebooting the kernel with devfs=nomount option to disable devfs on
bootup and I am *still* having the problem with pcmcia. (i am using
2.4.0+xfs -- would love to upgrade to 2.4.1 but can't access network
becasue of lack of pcmcia support :( ).
so unless having devfs compiled into the kernel (but no used) kills pcmcia
(doubtful), it should not be devfs.
-tduffy
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