Apologies: Are you reading flash cards via a PCMCIA slot?

[Jim Hart]

I apologize for putting this request out more than once. It's already 
in progress under "Mounting a CF card".

Please forgive the brain cramp.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jim Hart <jhart@bates.edu>
> Date: Sun Apr 25, 2004  10:10:17  PM US/Eastern
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Are you reading flash cards via a PCMCIA slot? Was: Need 
> ide-cs module
>
> OK, let me change the request. Would anyone who is able to put a flash 
> memory card into an adapter, insert it into a PCMCIA slot and then 
> read data or pictures from it, in YDL,  please contact me? I want to 
> find out the details of how you got it to work.
>
> BTW, I followed the pcmcia HOWTO at The Linux Documentation Project. 
> It assumes that you have the ide-cs module on your system.
>
> tia,
>
> Jim Hart
>
> On Sunday, April 25, 2004, at 06:09  PM, Stefan Bruda wrote:
>
>> At 13:36 -0400 on 2004-4-25 Jim Hart wrote:
>>>
>>> Would it work if I got the kernel and
>>> all the modules from someone else's machine?
>>
>> Certainly, but you will have to find somebody with ide--cs compiled in
>> (that gets compuiled when the kernel CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS is set by
>> the way).  I don't have it since I do not connect any bulk devices
>> through PCMCIA on my machine.
>>
>>> Would the installer have installed the ide-cs module if the CF card
>>> had been in a PCMCIA slot at the time?
>>
>> Nope, the installer installs the same kernel, which apparently does
>> not have this option set.
>>
>> Honestly, I have no idea from where can you grab a pre-compiled kernel
>> to suit your needs.  You mayt want to try some pre-compiled ones from
>> http://ppckernel.org/ (e.g., the 2.4.25-ben1, works well for me though
>> I compiled it from sources) but I have no idea what was included in
>> there.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>> -- 
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