Subject: Re: CF Card/PCMCIA
From: Ken Schweigert (ken@byte-productions.com)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 08:54:39 MDT
Carl,
I suspect that your kernel doesn't have PCMCIA support built in. The instructions
below might be expanded to say "...have PCMCIA support built into your kernel, ..."
If you've never rebuilt a kernel, it's fairly easy and plenty of documentation out
there on how to do it. Just make sure you "check" PCMCIA Support in the menu; as
well as the other components you want built in.
The mknod command that you used cannot just have random numbers. The complete list
can be found in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt The number in the left
column is your major number and the numbers indented in, and under the description,
are your minor numbers.
Hope this gives you a step in the right direction.
-- -Ken Schweigert, Aspiring Network Administrator Byte Productions, LLC http://www.byte-productions.comOn Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:51:16PM -0400, cbsled@ncia.net wrote: > Are there any correct instructions anywhere? > The ones at http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/digital_camera.shtml are sketchy and didn't work. > > They are: > "A PCMCIA CF card is easy to use. Just be sure you have PCMCIA support, stick in > the card, and "mount /dev/hde1 /mnt/flash". The only setup required is to mknod > /dev/hde. I don't remember the parameters off-hand (major and minor device > numbers). " > > I installed the pcmcia_core rpm from the YDL2 install CD. > (There should be a laptop installation class, IMHO, like RH7.1) > "mknod /dev/hde b {random #} {random #}" fails because /dev/hde already exists. > I tried a few things with cardctl, they all complained of finding no drivers in /proc/devices. > "mount /dev/hde1 /mnt/flash" fails, saying that hde1 is not recognized as a block device. > > It's beginning to look like a chicken and egg problem to me, so I gave up and wrote this. > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Carl Brown cbsled@ncia.net > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Microsoft: The company that made eMail dangerous.
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