Hardware Problem

[Dennis Kibbe]

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