On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 15.07.2010 15:51, schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan: >> I don't think gPXE supports PCMCIA network cards. > > Sadly, I think you are right. gPXE would have allowed you to load > arbitrarily large kernel and initrd images over the network :( > >> Leave all that, what >> am I supposed to do to initialize the PCMCIA card? > > Udev does that automatically. Looking at it more closely, I think I was > wrong. pcmciautils only contains two tools called > "pcmcia-check-broken-cis" and "pcmcia-socket-startup". The former is > necessary to enable devices with broken vendor/product id, the latter > starts up some pcmcia sockets ... it looks like you can live without > those if your hardware is not broken. Details about pcmcia-specific > initialization are in /lib/udev/rules.d/60-pcmcia.rules (pcmcia-utils). > > Guessing a bit further, it might be that you didn't build your PCMCMIA > host bridge into your kernel (most of the time it is yenta_socket) and > therefore don't see your card. > > Yes that was it, yenta_socket enabling recognizes the card, but doesn't recognize it as an ethernet card (No Initrd, static kernel). -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e
