[SWLUG] PCMCIA Gentoo

[Pete Prior]

Hi Kris,

I don't use Gentoo any more and pcmcia works out of the box with the 
stock Ubuntu kernel.  The ebuild says that pcmcia support needs to be 
enabled as "built in" in the kernel config.  Have you tried the other 
socket drivers?

It would be helpful if you could attach the output of the 'dmesg' 
command after booting to an email, or you could try the gentoo forums - 
they are usually pretty good.

Pete

Kris Zani wrote:
> Hi Pete
> 
> thanks for that but my understanding is that on a 2.6 kernel you don't 
> actually use the pcmcia daemon as that is based on cardmgr and the new 
> stuff uses kernel events via udev or hotplug.
> i have tried what you said though. I followed the 2.4 instructions in a 
> howto just to see.  but it didn't work.
> 
> Do you have pcmcia working on a laptop.  if so could you email me a copy 
> of your kernel config- i can diff that with mine and see if there's 
> anything pcmcia / hotplug related that jumps out.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Kris
> 
> 
> Pete Prior wrote:
> 
>> Hi Kris,
>>
>> Tried running:
>>
>> rc-update add pcmcia default
>>
>> then
>>
>> /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
>>
>> to start the services.
>>
>> It might be called pcmcia-cs not pcmcia but I'm not sure - been a 
>> while since I used gentoo ;)
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> Kris Zani wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I'm having trouble getting pcmcia working in gentoo with a 2.6 
>>> kernel.  Anyone have this working?
>>> Could really do with some assistance.  Tried lots of stuff but can't 
>>> seem to work out whats working and whats not to be
>>> able to track down where to start.
>>>
>>> the laptop should use the yenta_socket driver and i have compiled 
>>> support for all the PCMCIA stuff into the kernel (no modules).
>>>
>>> then emerged pcmica-cs and pcmciautils
>>>
>>> that doesn't seem to work.
>>> not sure where to go next.
>>>
>>> please reply any ideas, tips or whatever.
>>> or skype me kpzani
>>> or msn smileyjones123 at hotmail.com
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> Kris
>>>
>>> PS.  the msn name is so strange as it was a "fake" identity used 
>>> while we where constructing a dating agency website and it just sort 
>>> of stuck.
>>>
>>>
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