The toshiba laptops have a bios setting you can use to force it to use
PCIC mode instead of cardbus mode, and it works in that mode, so as long
as your cards are not really cardbus cards, you can just change that bios
setting.  It is unlikely I will update card services, like everything else
it just gets bigger and in line ahead of it for upgrades when 1.72 > 1.72
are upgrades to libc, the kernel, fdisk, mount, lilo, e2fsck, and more.  I
checked yesterday though, and 1.72 was still only equal to 1.72, so those
are on hold too... unfortunately, because pcmcia is so tightly tied to the
kernel, you have to basically replace the whole thing and your kernel if
you want to do it yourself.  But, again, in the case of the Toshiba, you
are probably fine just by changing the bios setting (I use it with a Tecra
8100, which I think is still current, as well as a couple of various
porteges, they all work with the bios change).

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, John Hardin wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:51:45 -0700
> From: John Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: PCMCIA card services 3.1 in tomsrtbt?
> 
>   I'm trying to work on a newer Toshiba laptop, and the 3.0 PCMCIA card 
> services in 1.7.250 doesn't recognize the ToPIC chipset it uses.
> 
> PCMCIA card services 3.1 should work, at least it does on full Linux 
> installs on other similar laptops.
> 
> Is there any possibility of getting tomsrtbt updated to card services 3.1?
> 
> I'm downloading 1.7.259 in the hopes that you've anticipated me...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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