[ltp] How do I configure my PCMCIA Card

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:22:22 +0100


On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 00:51:22 +0200, Blessing wrote:
> Most of the times my RH7.2 fails to properly initialise my PCMCIA credit
> card, but only yesterday it was working. So how do I make sure each time I
> boot-up my box the PCMCIA Credit Card is initialised properly and wvdial or
> minicom can dial to my ISP? When I start wvdial it says stop can't start
> /dev/ttyS3. See below the dmesg and the messages contents respectively.

An lsmod and cardctl status and cardctl ident output would be nice.

> Jan 30 00:11:08 localhost cardmgr[679]: socket 0: Anonymous Memory
> Jan 30 00:11:08 localhost cardmgr[679]: executing: 'modprobe memory_cs'
> Jan 30 00:11:09 localhost cardmgr[679]: + modprobe: Can't locate module
> memory_cs
> Jan 30 00:11:09 localhost cardmgr[679]: modprobe exited with status 255
> Jan 30 00:11:09 localhost cardmgr[679]: module
> /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/pcmcia/memory_cs.o not available
> Jan 30 00:11:10 localhost cardmgr[679]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
> Resource temporarily unavailable

This looks somewhat strange. What kind of PCMCIA cards do you have?

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