[TriLUG] how do I use cardbus under Linux-2.6?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Brian McCullough wrote:

> Joe,
>
> Sorry for not getting back sooner -- life keeps getting in the way of the 
> important stuff!

have been away from e-mail for a week.

Will look at your suggestions. I found a more recent version 
of the hotplug/pcmcia-HOWTO than the one on the TLDP pages - 
it's on ibiblio and it talks about getting cardbus working.

>From reading it, mine should be working, so I'll just work 
my way through his steps.


> Hmmm, Thinkpad and Cardbus.  Yes, I had some fun with my 600e while I was 
> learning how to get things to work.  I don't have it in front of me at the 
> moment, but will try my memory.
>
>
> /etc/pcmcia/ should have a configuration file that matches card "signatures" 
> to drivers.  Does your card appear there?

Don't have the laptop with me right now. I've got whatever 
comes with the latest pcmcia set. The problem isn't the 
driver or matching a driver to the card, it's that the card 
isn't even noticed on insertion (should get one beep, don't 
get anything and nothing in logs).

I assumed then that I don't have a functioning PCI-cardbus 
layer. I thought it was possible that I didn't have any 
hardware to do this, since it's a 6yr old laptop and it 
might predate cardbus, but lspci shows a pci-cardbus bridge, 
which presumably talks to the pcmcia pins. I will now have 
to figure out if I have a driver for the chip.

> /etc/hotplug also has controls in the Thinkpad

err, sorry, what do you mean here?

Joe

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