Am Sonntag, den 11.06.2006, 09:59 +0100 schrieb Daniel Carrera:
> Hello,
>
> I want to make a boot floppy fro rom-o-matic that will boot my laptop
> and make it act as a thin client. The laptop has a PCMCIA ethernet card
> without any useful markings on it. How can I figure out what driver I
> need for it? Is there an equivalent to 'lspci' for pcmcia devices?
You will not be able to use that with Etherboot.
Anyway, to find out what it is, you should first know wether it is a
cardbus 32bit or a 16bit card. The latter are ISAish, the 32bit run PCI
(although the PIN interface is the same - it's card of the controller
chip magic to just do the right thing).
For 32bit cards, once the PCMCIA bridge is initialised, they should
appear as PCI devices on a bus of their own. The ISA cards mostly
contain a memory area with a lot of information - I guess "dmesg" will
show that info on card plugin.
You might be able to get that running with the "wireless"-things
developed for older LTSP versions, basically a boot floppy with the
kernel and PCMCIA support. Several cabled ethernet PCMCIA cards out
there are standard chip counterparts, like NE2000-lookalikes, Intel
EtherExpress etc.
Regards,
Anselm
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