Steve, Thanks. Was beginning to wonder if the cry for help got through or not. I have read the PCMCIA-HOWTo. Section 2.3.1 deals with desktop readers. Its all of 10 lines long. It did mention that I may want to set "irq_list=0" for the Action Tec, but where I should set it it did not say. As a certain actor used to say in his earlier days, "I'm sooooooo confused!". Anyway, thanks for the response. Let me know if you have any other thoughts. Keith -----Original Message----- From: Dawes, Stephen [mailto:Stephen.Dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 11:06 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: New Hardware Keith, All though I know nothing about external PCMCIA readers, I believe that you should be able to get it to work, based on a comment that Janina made during the discussion about software synths. She was talking about a possible PCMCIA synth instead of a software synth, to which I replied that may work for laptop users but not desktop users, and that is when I found out that you could get a PCMCIA reader for a desktop computer. Oh yeah, there was no mention on how to install and get it working. Ok, I know that I did not answer your question, but I thought that it may shed a ray of hope for you. By the way, there is a PCMCIA HOWTO at http://linuxdocs.org that may shed some light on the problem for you. I believe that this HOWTO looks at not only PCMCIA for the laptop environment, but as well, it address the kind of thing that you are trying to do. I am surprised that all the helpful suggestions are not there for this topic, unless, you are doing the extremely obscure this time. Steve Dawes PHONE: (403) 268-5527. E-MAIL ADDRESS: sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca > -----Original Message----- > From: Watson, Keith [mailto:kwatson at grtk.com] > Sent: 2001 July 25 7:32 AM > To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca' > Subject: New Hardware > > > Hello all, > > I have a bit of a method problem to inquire about. As some of you may > already know, I have recently purchaed an ISA PCMCIA Card > Reader for my > Desktop system. What I am not sure about is how to go about > adding this new > hardware. > > My first attempt keeps locking up my system. Here is what I > have done. After > installing the card I did a pnpdump to a file, /etc/isapnp.conf, and > uncommented the appropriate lines. After this point I was at > a loss for the > next step. I dug around and found that the file in > /etc/sysconfig named > pcmcia had the line PCMCIA=no, PCIC=, so I set it to PCMCIA=yes, and > PCIC=i82365. Oh, forgot to mention this is a Red Hat box. I > also found that > the pcmcia service was not enabled under setup. I enabled it, and ran > service pcmcia start. Nothing! I am at a loss at this point. > Can anyone make > any suggestions? > > Oh, and if it helps the unit is a Action Tec PC700. > > Thanks, > > Keith > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
