I alluded to my frustrations with PCMCIA, and I might as well dive into it entirely (on list, anyway). This is my vision of PCMCIA (or in my case, CompactFlash+PCMCIA): 1. Insert CompactFlash into PCMCIA adapter 2. Insert PCMCIA card into PCMCIA slot 3. Boot. 4. BOOM! Instant Oxygen! :-) talk about combustion.... Another scenario: 1. Insert CompactFlash into PCMCIA adapter 2. Insert PCMCIA card into PCMCIA slot 3. Run LOADLIN against PCMCIA card. 4. BOOM! Instant Oxygen! :-) talk about combustion.... However, currently, it looks like this: 1. Insert CompactFlash into PCMCIA adapter 2. Insert PCMCIA card into PCMCIA slot 3. Run LOADLIN against PCMCIA card. 4. Wonder what LOADLIN's error message means. 5. Wonder why Windows 9x won't run it. 6. Wonder what to do! Or, even before that, all these questions come up: 1. Why is it so big? 2. You mean I have to use IRQs and IO Ports??? 3. No auto-detect on installation? 4. Which drivers? 5. What are all these config files? Why are there so many??? 6. How many modules are there? 7. You mean to tell me it won't fit into 1.68M? 8. I need to recompile my kernel? Ack! I know folks are working on it, but here is my vision of adding PCMCIA support to the kernel: 1. Select [Y] PCMCIA support 2. Recompile 3. Move bzImage to linux on LRP disk 4. Reboot 5. PCMCIA card now available instantly; hard drive cards on /dev/pcmcia0, etc.... Perhaps someone can elucidate; I'm not a Linux newbie (I've recompiled MANY kernels, can remember running 1.9.x briefly!) but I'm new (COMPLETELY) to PCMCIA. I'm still trying to figure out PCMCIA under Win3.x (sigh). And to think I thought this was going to be simple (sigh). -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Linux, Unixware [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/leaf-devel
