pcmcia support in missing in the rootfs

[Oliver Grawert]

pcmcia support is detected and dhcp is configured fine in the first stages of
the CD boot (for my pcmcia wlan card), but the whole pcmcia support seems to be
missing in the live session, so there is no network interface.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

As discussed, pcmcia-cs should be fixed not to try to talk to the hardware
unless it's actually present. d-i implements a check for this; I believe it
looks at sysfs.

Once this is implemented, I think we don't need to worry about conditionally
installing it during standard installs, either.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

(See ddetect/hw-detect.sh for where d-i figures out whether to install pcmcia-cs.)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

How about having casper run the apt-install queue after mounting the live
system, like base-installer does? That would allow it to share d-i's logic for
installing stuff from Ship.

Ship would have to be available for installation on the live CD, of course ...

[LaMont Jones (lamont)]

The latest pcmcia-cs (3.2.5-8ubuntu4) includes the logic from ddetect, and only
starts/stops pcmcia if it is present.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> How about having casper run the apt-install queue after mounting the live
> system, like base-installer does? That would allow it to share d-i's logic for
> installing stuff from Ship.
>
> Ship would have to be available for installation on the live CD, of course ...

Installing packages on the live CD is very slow and costs a great deal of
memory, so it is far preferable to have most of what we could need pre-installed.

What else is installed using this mechanism that we need to investigate?