From: Jef Knoors (jknoors@zonnet.nl)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 20:24:35 CEST
On 13 Jul 2000, at 12:05, Sven Conrad wrote:
This is a very good subject for a little Howto on pcmcia.
Let's collect some messages on this and see what we can
cut/paste into 1 document. Jef
> I forgot some important issues:
>
> 1. a very common none working default is:
> in file "/usr/local/pcmcia/config.opts"
> around line 18 there is a "#" == comment in a line
> "exclude irq 3"
> this is no good idea, because most Laptops have two serial interfaces
> (one RS232 and one modem/IRC).
> So please ensure, that irq 4,3,7 are excluded (no "#" in line)
> (irq 5 and 2/9 are allso candidates for exclusion because
> of possible conflicts with sound cards)
>
> 2. /proc/kmsg can only be readed once! And more worse, cat hang.
> you have to force the termination of cat (^C).
>
> Does anybody know a better method of getting the boot-messages into a
> file?
> Note: I don't have syslogd in my muLinux box!
>
> /sven
>
> >
> > Hi Kasper
> >
> > Kasper Engberg wrote:
> > >
> > > Well I don't know how to check if the PCMCIA card is working, but it's
> > > working in Win95 and I tried setting it up with "PCMCIA" which seems to run
> > > ok. Unfortunetly I don't know either what an eth-device is... If it's a link
> > > to a server - then there is one...!
> > >
> >
> > Uffff. This seems to become hard work.
> >
> > You allready know, that wether DOS nor WIN/xx Card-Managers will work on
> > Linux? ;-)
> >
> > Or more seriouse, what do you allready know about Linux/Un*x ? Have you
> > ever read any Howto or other doc about?
> >
> > What do you know about IP-Networks?
> >
> > And to come forth a liddle bit: please send me the kernel boot messages!
> >
> > You can do " cat /proc/kmsg > bootmsg_for_sven.txt" in the home-dir.
> > Please
> > send this file to me (PM: SvenConrad@gmx.de)
> >
> > I'am sorry to tell you, setup PCMCIA can be a liddle tricky on Linux. At
> > least
> > it has been allways for me, because of wrong interrupt assingments.
> >
> > /sven
>
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