Subject: Re: PBg3 - Still no PCMCIA
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Sep 09 1999 - 19:03:05 MDT
PCMCIA support is pretty sketchy on PPC.. especially if you have a '99
Powerbook G3.
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Adam Price wrote:
> So...
>
> I have recompiled the latest version of pcmcia (3.0.14) and still nothing
> happens. When I try lsmod, I get no indication of card monitoring. Cardmgr
> does not fire up, and cardctl ident returns "no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices"
> (Also /var/run/stab does not exist.) In PCMCIA-HOWTO, it says that this is
> caused by a pcmcia setup which was not configured properly for the kernel it is
> on. I compiled it on this kernel, though, so that doesn't seem right. Is
> pcmcia simply not supported by YDL? If that is the case, there should be some
> notice on the hardware page. I can do nothing on the internet without pcmcia
> services, and right now they do nothing at all. Would someone just tell me if
> it is going to stay this way, so I can stop smashing my head against this wall?
>
> -Adam
>
>
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Yellow Dog Linux
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