i'm trying to get the magma pci extender to work under linux.  basically, this device is a bunch of external pci slots which connects to a laptop via a cardbus pc card.  i've email david hinds, the maintainer of the linux pcmcia, and he said that currently linux only supports adding a single device behind a cardbus bridge.  he suggested that i check out the hot plug stuff, saying you were providing a more generic interface.
 
(when i plugged the device in on the 2.2 and an early 2.4 kernel, btw, lspic would detect the cardbus bridge.  i just couldn't see beyond it.)
 
any assistance on where to begin on this exercise would be greatly appreciated.
 
thanks in advance.
 
--mk
 
Mark Krischer
Manager, Software Engineering
Wireless Networking Business Unit, Ethernet Access Group
Cisco Systems
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