Cant boot without nopcmcia

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Cant boot without nopcmcia
started by: jedi156

Posted by jedi156 on Aug. 01 2005,19:00

Hi,
I have an old Kiwi OpenNote P166 64MB 2G HD, anyway I can not boot poormans, hd install or floppy/cd with out the nopcmcia or it hangs

Is there some way to manualy comfigure the Trident Omega - 82c094 PCI to PCMCIA bridge, so I could use my Orinoco wifi card, Or am I just SOL?
Thanks

Posted by Rapidweather on Aug. 02 2005,02:25

Do a search on Google on your machine, and see if anyone has installed a linux distro on it, and how they did it. The 64 MB of RAM would limit a lot of the newer distros, and a lot of the older ones won't have the features you need to get the pcmcia running. I do have a Toshiba 4015CDS, with pcmcia, and run SLAX livecd linux on it all the time. That one allows me to boot with no cheatcodes, and just asks me to confirm the restoration from a tarball on the hard drive, so it's easy to get up and running.
I can run DSL on it, no problem, also, very well. Latest DSL picks up the restoration off the /dev/hda1 hard drive partition automatically.
Anyway, you might find something on Google to head you in the right direction. Worth a good try for a while before calling it a day.
:;):

Posted by jedi156 on Aug. 08 2005,20:53

Well I had searched here, at knoppix.net and googled before asking here. After much more searching, it looks like the problem is that kernels after 2.3.46 or so lost support for PCI pcmcia controllers unless they where also cardbuss and mine is not

I would still like to know how dsl configures pcmcia, I found the kernel modules but was expecting to find an /etc/init.d/pcmcia script but don’t. So any clues as to how pcmcia gets configured could help.
thanks