Hardware Problem

[Mark Phillips]

Dennis,

You are right (sort of)..

The computer has 4 pcmcia slots in 2 banks. When I moved the network card to 
the second bank and put the hard drive in the first bank, the pcmcia hard drive 
was recognized, but not the network card!

Actually that is not completely true - I put the network card in the second 
bank, rebooted, and no network card. I then put in the hard drive in the first 
bank, and the os recognized it right away. I guess kernel 2.2 also supports hot 
swapped pcmcia cards?

The kernel is 2.2.something.

Any suggestions on how to (1) get the other pcmcia slots activated, and (2) how 
do I access the new drive (it is hdc, based on what I saw on the screen)?

Thanks!

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From:	Dennis Kibbe [SMTP:PLUG@sahuaro.us]
Sent:	Tuesday, December 03, 2002 7:01 PM
To:	plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject:	Re: Hardware Problem

On Tuesday 03 December 2002 12:21 pm, you wrote:
> I installed Debian 3.0 on an older 486 laptop and it seems to work -
> network comes up, I can login, I can ssh from another machine, etc. I then
> tried to install a pcmcia hard drive, but I cannot get the OS to recognize
> that the drive exits when it boots. My network card is pcmcia, so I am
> pretty sure that is working. I used modconf to enable the ide module for
> pcmcia, but that did not solve the problem.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get the drive to work would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>

Mark,

Two things come to mind.

1.  I bet the PCMCIA slot on the 486 is not 32bit (CardBus), so if the card
you are pluging is CardBus it won't work.

2. What kernel did you install? The 2.4 kernel supports hot swapping of
PCMCIA cards and USB devices.

Dennis Kibbe
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