Very bad pcmcia regression

[Nicolas.]

Hi,

As regards to:
b) the kernel was compiled some years ago. The PCMCIA ports worked for
years without any problem. There was no change at all to that kernel
c) the PCMCIA ports works well with cardbus cards (my ethernet adaptor
works perfectly). The PCMCIA<->CF adaptor was tested on a Windows
laptop, and it worked fine.

That list is dedicated to the 2.6 kernel only? Does that mean there's
no support for PCMCIA on the 2.4 kernel?
I'll contact the Debian maintainer of the pcmcia-cs package. But is
there no mailing-list about pcmcia on a 2.4 kernel??? That's really
surprising!

Thank you.
Nicolas.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:10:01PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:30:32PM +0200, Nicolas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I use Debian SID on my Thinkpad 600E for years. I use PCMCIA to use a
> > Xircom ethernet card, and to transfer pictures from memory cards. I use
> > a simple 16bits PCMCIA compact-flash reader.
> > 
> > Some weeks ago, I had a bad surprise: the compact-flash PCMCIA reader
> > does not work anymore. In fact, it's not even recognized by cardctl
> > info.
> > 
> > I tested the PCMCIA compact-flash on another laptop, and it worked fine.
> > 
> > Therefore, I assumed something changed on my system.
> > 
> > I compiled my 2.4.24 kernel some years ago. It's a specially patched
> > version with ipsec. I don't want to update that kernel.
> > 
> > Perhaps another pcmcia-cs version was installed on my system when I
> > upgrade my Debian SID.
> 
> This list is about PCMCIA in kernel 2.6. -- it seems to me that the problem
> you're experienced is caused by
> a) pcmcia-cs in Debian sid,
> b) the 2.4. kernel, or
> c) the hardware.
> 
> As you think the problem indeed is in pcmcia-cs, you might want to ask the
> Debian maintainer of that package directly.
> 
> 	Dominik
> 

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