[ILUG] pcmcia question

[Declan Moriarty]

As I remember it, the sequence is this: Finding the the pcmcia port calls in 
the card services. You will need to configure a card in /etc/serial.opts (at 
least I did) and a module in /etc/modules.conf. I think the key to 
understanding your 'dmesg' output is the line 

> ds: no socket drivers loaded!

Which means (guessing wildly again) that the card services decided it's not 
set up to run anything, and went home in disgust. There is a HOWTO if you 
enjoy masochism, and a linux-laptop list run from vger.kernel.org. My laptop 
died up so I kind of lost interest in this stuff awhile back.

I will pass on one funny experience, however, which is the answer to all 
those guys who think windoze can multitask. I had intractable problems on the 
laptop installation, (X and kernel would exclaim about corrupt files but keep 
going), and decided in my ignorance on the M$ solution (reinstall). I had 
this (text based) install going via pcmcia scsi 4x cdrom (set up in 
/etc/scsi.opts), while my young tyke decided he was going on the internet 
(pcmcia modem). Off he went (Alt-F2; startx) - 2 browser windows at least, an 
irc channel or three, and probably a couple of downloads as well, while the 
install was on another console - all in 32MB. I got to check the install 
later - it had stopped on package 149 of 153 'cos it couldn't read the cdrom. 
Try THAT in windoze!   
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	Declan Moriarty




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Was it John P. Looney who wrote on Tuesday 19 February 2002 16:47:
>  I have a Nokia Card Phone 2.0 PCMCIA card in a buffalo PCI/PCMCIA
> adapter. Only, I've no real idea how to get PCMCIA working in the kernel.
> I'm looking for a *very* minimalist approach here.
>
>  I've installed gsmlib and some kernel modules;
>
> bash-2.04# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> serial_cs               4608   0  (unused)
> ds                      6576   0  [serial_cs]
> yenta_socket            8944   1
> pcmcia_core            39552   0  [serial_cs ds yenta_socket]
>
>  and it seems to be vaugely detected;
>
> From dmesg;
>
> Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
>   options:  [pci] [cardbus]
> ds: no socket drivers loaded!
> unloading Kernel Card Services
> Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
>   options:  [pci] [cardbus]
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:08.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0c.0
> Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq11
> Socket status: 30000410
>
>  But...where next ? I was hoping I could just talk to the card with the
> Extended Wireless AT command set...but what port do I use ? How could I
> even find out ?
>
> John