I'm almost getting it to work with Debian Etch. I can insert a pcmcia usb card and read/write to usb memory sticks. Haven't worked up to the webcam yet.
--- Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I've an old dell laptop that is barely adequate > for > > Linux, and the pcmcia usb card doesn't seem to > play > > in Debian etch. > > So there is no fixed USB in that laptop, and the > BIOS > probably does not support any USB. Modern BIOSes do > support USB keyboard, mouse and storage (flash, > cdrom, > floppy, harddisk) connected via USB. Nice for DOS. > Maybe you can use a "lighter" version of Linux? Does > the laptop come with some sort of DOS pcmcia > drivers? > Or does the pcmcia usb card come with DOS drivers? > > > I was wondering if I would gain by just installing > > freedos. Then the question is, does Freedos on a > > laptop have drivers for the pcmcia, and usb? > > You would not gain much. There are free but > commercial > USB storage drivers from various vendors. I think > all > PCMCIA drivers are nonfree. The Deskwork.de > shareware > GUI has a bit of PCMCIA support, and IBM PC DOS and > maybe others have card drivers, too. We even have > the > permission to use a code snippet from Deskwork if we > want to make our own PCMCIA drivers, but nobody has > started to work on this yet. The idea is to use this > code, some ramdisk source code, the kernel initdisk > source code, the udma PIO mode (no DMA in PCMCIA) > and > some ISA PnP code, throw them together, and then > have > a driver for PCMCIA CF disks and similar :-). There > is also a generic semi-commercial USB driver kit > from > Georg Potthast. If you are good or if you can pay, > it > might be a way to make a cam driver based on this > kit > and an existing Linux cam driver. But then, the > Linux > cam driver will be GPL / open source and the driver > of > Georg is not, so licenses might be a problem here. > > Eric > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
