[ltp] How do I configure my PCMCIA Card

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:22:40 +0000, Michael Selway wrote:
> Tino Keitel writes:
>  > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 00:51:22 +0200, Blessing wrote:
>  > > Jan 30 00:11:08 localhost cardmgr[679]: socket 0: Anonymous Memory
>  > > Jan 30 00:11:08 localhost cardmgr[679]: executing: 'modprobe memory_cs'
>    ...
>  > 
>  > This looks somewhat strange. What kind of PCMCIA cards do you have?
> 
> Aha! I've been trying on-and-off to get an old memory pcmcia card
> of mine to work under redhat 8.0.  I get very similar messages to
> Blessing when I plug the card in (see below).  My research as far
> as it goes is that pc card support is all quite different now, and
> the old memory_cs driver isn't around anymore, and there doesn't
> seem to be a replacement.  Does anyone have any pointer which
> might help me?
> 
> Also, on a similar subject, I have an ethernet pc card which isn't
> recognized.  I know which driver it needs (the RealTek one iirc),
> but the list of vendor/product ids seem to be hard coded in the
> driver source code(!).  In the olden days, I'd have edited the ids

Do you mean the /etc/pcmcia/config file? You can edit this the make it
work with you card if recognition fails.

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