[ltp] Problems with PCMCIA

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:44:35 +0200


On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 22:24:33 -0700, Jason MacDermott wrote:
> > AFAIK, older ThinkPads need a kernel parameter floppy=thinkpad. However, I
> > really don't know if this applies to a 365.
> 
> Thanks for the tip - the floppy drive works fine with Debian 2.2 now, and
> can be mounted with vfat-format disks.  Great!
> 
> Now that I can get some more Debian packages onto this system, I have run
> into another problem:  I'd like to get my CardBus (Ambicom 2100) PCMCIA
> Network card running.  I used "cardctl" to see if it detected the two PCMCIA
> ports, and it detected 2 Sockets (0 and 1).

Go to http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS and you will see
that the Ambicom 2100 is not listet, which means it is not supported.

Tino

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