Re: [ILUG] pretec flash reader

From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Tue 30 Oct 2001 - 11:30:53 GMT


On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:15:48AM +0000, Dave Neary mentioned:
> Has anyone managed to get this flash reader (I believe the main chip's
> made by a company called Carry) working under linux? I know it wasn't
> supported in the earlier 2.4 kernels, but there was some talk of partial
> support for the range recently, so I thought I'd chance my luck on
> whether any of you had mistakenly bought this, and subsequently gotten
> it working.

 What's the USB ID on it ? We have one here. I'm trying to convince Glen
to take a week off, and stay at home hacking at a driver for it :)

 Short answer is;

 No. There aren't drivers.

 Long answer is;

 There is a partial driver, though it requires the microcode for the
various different models. If you want, I have a patch for the 2.4.4
kernel, that seems to support (nearly) one of the chip implementations.

Kate

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