pcmcia-socket-startup

[Russell King]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:43:08PM +0200, Claudio Di Vittorio wrote:
> when i try to insert a card (calling pccardctl insert)
> i obtain:
> 
> #pccardctl insert 
>      pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
>      dmabounce: registered device 0000:01:00.0 on pci
> bus
> 
> but after that if try to get infos about card i have
> no results:
> 
> #pccardctl info
> PRODID_1=""
> PRODID_2=""
> PRODID_3=""
> PRODID_4=""
> MANFID=0000,0000
> FUNCID=255
> 
> #pccardctl ident 0
> no product info available

Expected.  It's not a PCMCIA card - it's a Cardbus card (== PCI like),
so it only shows up in lspci.

> #lspci
> 00:03.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410
> Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation
> 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications,
> Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

So you need a PCI/Cardbus driver for this card, not a PCMCIA driver.
Try looking at http://madwifi.org/

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Russell King
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