[arch-general] PCMCIA Kernel 2.6

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 15.07.2010 15:51, schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan:
>> I don't think gPXE supports PCMCIA network cards.
>
> Sadly, I think you are right. gPXE would have allowed you to load
> arbitrarily large kernel and initrd images over the network :(
>
>> Leave all that, what
>> am I supposed to do to initialize the PCMCIA card?
>
> Udev does that automatically. Looking at it more closely, I think I was
> wrong. pcmciautils only contains two tools called
> "pcmcia-check-broken-cis" and "pcmcia-socket-startup". The former is
> necessary to enable devices with broken vendor/product id, the latter
> starts up some pcmcia sockets ... it looks like you can live without
> those if your hardware is not broken. Details about pcmcia-specific
> initialization are in /lib/udev/rules.d/60-pcmcia.rules (pcmcia-utils).
>
> Guessing a bit further, it might be that you didn't build your PCMCMIA
> host bridge into your kernel (most of the time it is yenta_socket) and
> therefore don't see your card.
>
>


Yes that was it, yenta_socket enabling recognizes the card, but
doesn't recognize it as an ethernet card (No Initrd, static kernel).

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