"device card" no longer being used?

Erik P. Skaalerud erik at pentadon.com
Fri May 28 01:24:09 PDT 2004


Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 11:46:43 +0800
>>From: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu at realss.com>
>>
>>Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Don't panic!  (I couldn't find the "LargeFriendlyLetters" font.)
>>>
>>>For PCIC support on V5, you need to build an OLDCARD kernel. There is a
>>>sample configuration for OLDCARD in /sys/i386/conf and it only entails
>>>changing a few lines. Basically you remove cbb, pccard, and cardbus and
>>>add pcic and card.
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>Thank you. Now pcic works fine, my NIC is recognized. But I come across 
>>an irq conflict. That's another story though.
>>
> 
> 
> Glad it worked for you. The only real problem is that you can't use
> CardBus cards with OLDCARD, so you may want to install two kernels if
> you think you might need to run a CardBus card. You can build the other
> kernel with NO_MODULES, since they are unchanged. Then copy it into
> /boot/kernel.cardbus and link all of the modules (*.ko) from
> /boot/kernel.
> 
> It's a pain, but it does work as long as you don't need to mix PCIC and
> CardBus cards.

I've encountered a problem with OLDCARD. Wireless devices just refuses 
to work with my ISA->PCMCIA bridge. No errors anywhere, but clients who 
try to connect to it (running hostap) just get kicked off again.

Erik


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