Question: Need help setting up pcmcia-cs-3.1.13 on Linux Mandrake 

Forum: PCMCIA Installation and Configuration Issues
Date: 2000, Apr 25
From: Andrew Brackenbury abrackenbury

Hello. I have a Sony Vaio PCG-719 laptop. I have the hard drive partitioned into a windows and Linux section. Linux Mandrake will not recognize my PCMCIA cards. I need it to see my 3com EtherLink III PCMCIA 3C589D card and my Adaptec APA-1425/50/60 PCMCIA SCSI host adapter. I downloaded a driver file from this source: ftp://sourceforge.org/pcmcia/pcmcia-cs-3.1.13.tar.gz. I was using windows at the time and I put the relevent files on three floppies. I don't know how to install the software on Linux mandrake from a shell prompt but this is the way I need to do it. The fact that the files are spread across three disks frightens me. Can anyone help? andrew

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Hard to tell, but you may not need to do this at all Re: Question: Need help setting up pcmcia-cs-3.1.13 on Linux Mandrake (Andrew Brackenbury) Date: 2000, Apr 25 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

The PCMCIA package (the *.tar.gz file) is only about 1 MB so it will easily fit on a single floppy. So I have no idea what you did to split the files across three floppies. If you tried to unpack the package under Windows, you've probably messed it up sufficiently that you should just start over. The PCMCIA-HOWTO does have detailed installation instructions. However, backing up a step, you say that your linux setup "will not recognize" your cards. That sounds very fishy to me and sounds like you've just not configured things properly, and there may be no need to upgrade your drivers. See the PCMCIA-HOWTO section on diagnosing installation problems. You need to check basic things like (1) is PCMCIA turned on in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia? (2) are there PCMCIA messages in your system log? (3) do you hear beeps when you insert cards? etc. -- Dave

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