Linux Debian support - Debian etch pcmcia HELP!!!!

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Debian etch pcmcia HELP!!!!

Captain Dondo

2006-04-08, 7:12 pm

OK, gurus, *please* help me out....

I have been completely stymied by what should be a simple task.... Putting
a 2MB flash image on a PCMCIA SRAM card...

The only thing I have with PCMCIA is an older Toshiba laptop. I installed
Debian Etch this morning, because pcmcia under the old OS (FC3) was
completely hosed....

So now at least PCMCIA works. If I plug in a Megahetz network card it is
detected and the drivers are installed.

But if I plug in my SRAM card, the pcmcia subsystem generates the event -
I see a 'pccard inserted in slot 1' message - but that's it.

I am assuming that I am missing the module for the SRAM cards... But I
can't fin dout what module that might be... I've tried ide-cd but that
hasn't made one bit of difference..... The module is loaded but again,
there is no device that I can write to....

So how do I get SRAM cards recognized?

Thanks,

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2006-04-08, 7:12 pm

Captain Dondo wrote:
> OK, gurus, *please* help me out....
>
> I have been completely stymied by what should be a simple task.... Putting
> a 2MB flash image on a PCMCIA SRAM card...
>
> The only thing I have with PCMCIA is an older Toshiba laptop. I installed
> Debian Etch this morning, because pcmcia under the old OS (FC3) was
> completely hosed....
>
> So now at least PCMCIA works. If I plug in a Megahetz network card it is
> detected and the drivers are installed.
>
> But if I plug in my SRAM card, the pcmcia subsystem generates the event -
> I see a 'pccard inserted in slot 1' message - but that's it.
>
> I am assuming that I am missing the module for the SRAM cards... But I
> can't fin dout what module that might be... I've tried ide-cd but that
> hasn't made one bit of difference..... The module is loaded but again,
> there is no device that I can write to....
>
> So how do I get SRAM cards recognized?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Yan

On my machine, some PCMCIA storage cards use SCSI emulation.
Are modules sd_mod and scsi_mod loaded?

Another idea is to boot the machine using Knoppix and check if the
memory card works. If it does, make a note of all the modules loaded and
try these in Debian.

HTH.

Regards,
Vinay.

Mark South

2006-04-10, 8:00 am

On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:17:08 +0000, VS wrote:

> Captain Dondo wrote:
>
> On my machine, some PCMCIA storage cards use SCSI emulation.
> Are modules sd_mod and scsi_mod loaded?
>
> Another idea is to boot the machine using Knoppix and check if the
> memory card works. If it does, make a note of all the modules loaded and
> try these in Debian.

An older machine may struggle with Knoppix. Instead, consider using
DamnSmall, which uses the same hardware detection process but will run on
a far less powerful machine. Also in its favour, it still uses a 2.4
series kernel, and at 50 Mb takes a lot less time to download.

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Captain Dondo

2006-04-10, 7:03 pm

Mark South wrote:

> An older machine may struggle with Knoppix. Instead, consider using
> DamnSmall, which uses the same hardware detection process but will run on
> a far less powerful machine. Also in its favour, it still uses a 2.4
> series kernel, and at 50 Mb takes a lot less time to download.
>

Thanks, I know PCMCIA cards were supported using 2.4/pcmcia-cs, so I'll
try DSL.

For some reason, pcmciautils and 2.6 bolixed support for pcmcia mtd...
(Possibly because few use them anymore?)

--Yan