[ltp] PCMCIA USB port cards under Linux?

[James Knott]

Mendel Cooper wrote:
> Is there Linux support for PCMCIA USB cards? Specifically,
> the type of PCMCIA cards that give you 2 or 4 USB 2.0 ports.
> Has anyone had any success with these on a Thinkpad? Any issues?
> Did the 2.4 series kernels have this support?
> 
> I'm thinking of getting one of these to try with my TP A31 (builtin USB
> 1.1 only)  and possibly also to play with on my TP 760XD (no builtin
> USB at all). The 760 runs a 2.4.21 kernel (not enough oomph for 2.6),
> so hopefully it would still work. . . .

I recently bought an Adaptec 2 port USB 2 PCMCIA card.  Works fine.  All
I had to do was plug it in.  However, this was with a 2.6 kernel in SUSE 10.