pci-to-pcmcia connection with "AirPrime 5220 EVDO"

[David Hinds]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 03:01:53PM -0400, rohan mutagi wrote:
> Hello,
>  I have attached a EVDO card to my Desktop PC via a PCI-to-PCMCIA
> bridge by ElanDigital. When I do a lspci with my EV-Do card inserted i
> get:
> pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci/02/00.0
> lspci: Unable to read 64 bytes of configuration space.

...

> So i thought the problem was with my PC and so i inserted the EV-Do
> caed in the PCI slot of my laptop. When i did a lspci:
> I get the results fine and dont see the "cannot open" error. Why is
> there this difference?

The difference is that your desktop is running a 2.4 kernel with the
external pcmcia-cs driver modules, while your laptop is running some
other combination, probably a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel with the kernel PCMCIA
subsystem.

-- Dave