RedHat 6.1 Install using PC Card - arg! 

Forum: Installing Linux using or onto a PCMCIA device
Date: 2000, Mar 18
From: Lionel B. Dyck lbdyck

I have a IBM Thinkpad 701C, 24mb ram, 340mb hd, and both a Cadmusmicro 10/100 Ethernet PC Card (lna100n) and and IBM PCMCIA 4x CDROM (1969-008) using redhat 6.1 pcmcia.img diskette. Apparently neither are found when I attempt my install. With the CDROM the "Initializing PC Card" popup appears and then a popup asking for a driver diskette. However the CDROM drive spins the CD during the initialization so it appears to be finding it but something isn't right. For the ethernet card I see the same only there is no indication that the card was found - only the prompt for the driver diskette. With this card I found in the manual the following: ** Getting Started for RedHat 6.0 with PCMCIA-3.0.9 * Login as root. * Copy lnax100.o into /lib/modules/2.2.5 -"cp lnax100.o /lib/modules/2.2.5" * Copy config.lna100n into /etc/pcmcia - "cp config.lna100n /etc/pcmcia" * Use vi editor to append the following line into /etc/pcmcia/config - source ./config.lna100n * Restart the cardmgr - "/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart" * Logoff root. But I can't find the lnax100.o or config.lna100n nor do I know how to update the pcmcia.img generated diskette. Help (please)

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Feedback: Automatic probing of PCMCIA during installation Re: RedHat 6.1 Install using PC Card - arg! (Lionel B. Dyck) Date: 2000, Mar 19 From: Leonardo Presciuttini leoprex

I have a Toshiba 300CDT and both Sportster Winmodem PC card and a external IDE disk drive card. I have tried 6 among the major installations, but the only two which recognized the existence of PC cards during istallation (and so they asked if I need support for PCMCIA) were SuSE and TurboLinux. RedHat did not asked. Both SuSE and TurboLinux, after loading the extra-disk, recognised the external drive and so I can partition and format the external disk, but did not recognised the modem card. Since I have not succeded to arrive at the end of the first boot (see question nb.4 on this forum) I cannot say if it will be possible to recognise the modem after launching Linux. Perhaps it can be of help to you to try with the abovesaid installations. Leonardo

Those cards are not supported Re: RedHat 6.1 Install using PC Card - arg! (Lionel B. Dyck) Date: 2000, Mar 20 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

These two cards (Cadmus Micro 10/100 ethernet, IBM 4x CDROM) are not on the supported cards list. You're going to have a very difficult time trying to modify the Red Hat installation disks to support them. There's no easy way to do it. I'm not sure what the specific problem is with the CDROM card. Part of the problem with PCMCIA installations is that there is no space on the install disks to put things to help diagnose problems. And without more information, it isn't possible to tell exactly what is wrong, or to fix anything. Your best bet is to buy or borrow a card that Red Hat says is actually supposed to work with RH6.0. Even still, PCMCIA installation is often problematic, which is why Red Hat will tell you they don't officially support it at all. -- Dave

1. Sad: Support for Cadmus card ?? by Lionel B. Dyck, 2000, Mar 20 2. Those instructions don't apply in this case by David Hinds, 2000, Mar 20 1. Sad: Can't win - sigh by Lionel B. Dyck, 2000, Mar 21

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