2.6 kernel Realtek 8139c PCMCIA driver

Russell King rmk+pcmcia at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Dec 26 04:16:34 EST 2004


On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 03:18:31AM +0100, Vaclav Stepan wrote:
> Am I overlooking something obvious or is it necessary to 
> write the driver? 

The driver already exists in the vanilla kernel.  You're just rather
confused about terminology.  8139 would be a Cardbus card, which is
precisely the same as PCI from the software point of view.  Therefore,
there isn't a PCMCIA driver for the card, but there is a PCI driver.

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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