[arch-general] PCMCIA Kernel 2.6

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 15.07.2010 08:58, schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan:
>> Okay all, I found the option. I had hotplug disabled, so it was now
>> showing up. The / trick helped :D
>> I compiled the 3c589_cs driver into the vmlinuz image (loadable module
>> support disabled), but it doesn't seem to recognize the hardware.
>> As per Thomas, the initialization has to be done by initrd, but how
>> can a kernel and initrd fit on a 1.44 MB floppy?
>> and btw, udev is disabled in my install, I am using static /dev nodes.
>
> If you try to boot via network, you could try to use gPXE - if you are
> lucky, it has support for your network card (it supports very many
> cards). gPXE can then load kernel and initrd via network (NFS, tftp,
> http, ftp, whatever you like). gPXE usually fits on a floppy, even with
> network drivers included.
>
>


I don't think gPXE supports PCMCIA network cards. Leave all that, what
am I supposed to do to initialize the PCMCIA card?

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