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Question: how to find a PC104 PCMCIA adapter? 

Forum: PCMCIA Installation and Configuration Issues
Date: 2000, May 15
From: c. chris erway cce

Hello. I'm from the Cornell BRAIN project, developing an "autonomous underwater vehicle" (read: robot submarine) for a competition in July. We are using Linux on a small single-board computer to accomplish this task.

My team bought a PCM-3115B (http://www.aaeon.com/html/pcm3115b.htm), which is a PC104 module with two PCMCIA slots on it. They did not consult with me ("the Linux guy") first, so we don't have any Linux drivers for it right now.

I am trying to figure out if I can get it to work with the Linux PCMCIA package. My dream is this: that I can magically start using the PCMCIA slots by simply pointing the PCMCIA kernel modules at some specific IO address and IRQ (and memory area?). However, I don't know if that would work.

Has anyone heard of any success using ANY kind of PC104 adapter for PCMCIA support? Even experiences using one of those PCI-to-PCMCIA adapters would be relevant here. Any input anyone has would be very useful. Thanks.

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This dock should work

Re: Question: how to find a PC104 PCMCIA adapter? (c. chris erway)
Date: 2000, May 15
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org> 

I checked their web site and it appears that the PCM-3115B uses a
Vadem VG-468 chipset, which is supported by the linux drivers.

I've had people tell me they've used PC104 cards with VG-468 chipsets,
as well as Cirrus PD672x chipsets, successfully.  I have not kept
track of specific vendors and product codes.

What happens when you load the Linux PCMCIA drivers?  Does the i82365
module fail out with a "not found" message?  There is only one setting
that is relevant for this type of controller: the i365_base parameter
has to point to the card's base IO address, which is normally 0x3e0.
The documentation for the PCM-3115B should indicate if there are any
jumpers for configuring the IO address.

-- Dave
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