--- Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hello all > > I have 2 card readers - an Sandisk PCMCIA compactflash card reader, and > an Lexar USB Smartmedia card reader, and well, the question is how to > get those to work on my linux laptop? I'm not fairly sure what is there > to need to know to solve the problem, the laptop's a fairly ancient one, > P233mmo, 128mb RAM, USB (has to be version 1 I guess), and has PCMCIA. > Running Debian woody version 3 with kernel version 2.4.21-rc5. I get > the following messages when I insert the card readers: > > PCMCIA Compact Flash reader: > "cardmgr[94]: unsupported card in socket 1 > cardmgr[94]: product info: "Micron", "MTCF " > cardmgr[94]: manfid: 0x002c, 0x0000 function: 4 (fixed disk)" > > USB Smartmedia reader: > hub.c: new USB device 00:01.2-2, assigned address 2 > usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x5dc/0x1) is not claimed by any active > driver." > > I'm guessing that I just need the drivers to get them, but I've searched > for them, can't find them. > > Thanks very much for your help in advance > > Cheers - Piers
Piers, The SmartMedia card reader should just work. Using a stock 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel, all I needed to do was add this line to my /etc/fstab # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> /dev/sda1 /smartmedia auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 Then it was just a matter of plug in reader, insert card, and mount. When finished, unmount, remove card, and (optionally) unplug reader. In the event that you are using a home rolled kernel, you need to enable support for SCSI block devices. This is the SCSI part of my .config file (2.4.20 kernel) that works with the SmartMedia reader: # # SCSI support # CONFIG_SCSI=m # # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM) # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40 # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR is not set CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=2 # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SCH is not set CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m Everything works just great. -Roberto Sanchez ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sorteos - http://loteria.yahoo.es Juega a la Lotería Primitiva sin salir de casa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
