It is actually (I now discover) fixed already in the latest svn, but the latest svn has a problem with uClibc. To fix it temporarily change the features line in target/linux/x86/Makefile to include the word pcmcia.
David On Wednesday 13 May 2009, rcml wrote: > I am interested too > i have old soekris with pcmcia > > david kowalkowski > > David Goodenough a écrit : > > I need to drive a PCMCIA card on an x86 platform, so I tried to find > > pcmciautils on menuconfig. But as I have x86 defined, it is not there. > > > > Search reveals that it should be in Utilities, but it says that it > > depends on LINUX_2_6 && PCMCIA_SUPPORT. LINUX_2_6 is defined for x86, > > but it would appear that PCMCIA_SUPPORT is only selected (according to > > menuconfig) by:- > > > > TARGET_bcrm_2_4 && choice || TARGET_pxa && choice && BROKEN || > > TARGET_au1000_au1500 && choice & TARGET_au1000 > > > > Which means that for all practical purposed the only place it works is > > on the AU1500 - as brcm_2_4 fails with LINUX_2_6 and PXA is BROKEN. > > > > But there are several x86 platforms which have PCMCIA slots. I have two, > > the old Compulab-586 and the Microtik RB230 - which remarkably can > > still be bought. It is also present on some older Soekris cards, and of > > course most laptops (not usually OpenWRT targets, but if you have an > > old one lying around you might as well do something with it). > > > > So the question is how do I get PCMCIA_SUPPORT added to x86? I am > > unsure where menuconfig finds this expression and therefore how to > > change it. > > > > David > > _______________________________________________ > > openwrt-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
