PCMCIA on Powerbook G3 Series

PCMCIA on Powerbook G3 Series

[Hugh Caley]

Is it possible yet to use PCMCIA on a PB G3 Series laptop?  I used to have a
Wallstreet, and now I have a Lombard, plus Paul Mackerras' kernel source tree,
and I never got it working on either.  I just installed the latest 3.1
pcmcia-cs, and simply inserting my little Viking smart card adaptor causes a
kernel panic every time, and having it in at boot does the same thing.

This card works fine under MacOS, and also under Linux for x86; it just shows
up as another drive on the desktop (or as another mountable drive).

There is an old patch for the Mac serial driver at:

http://xenu.phys.uit.no/~alvin/linux/pcmcia-serial.patch

but I'm afraid to use something that out of date, and the other text there
seems to imply that a special kernel config is necessary.  Also, it seems
related to Mac serial support and modems, and my card doesn't have anything to
do with either one, as far as I can tell.

Anyone have more up to date information?

Hugh

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Hugh Caley, Unix Administrator
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510-524-1672
hughc@babcockbrown.com


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Re: PCMCIA on Powerbook G3 Series

[Dan Malek]

Hugh Caley wrote:


> Is it possible yet to use PCMCIA on a PB G3 Series laptop?

Yep.  Do it on my Wallstreet every day.  I run an old kernel that
I patch here and there, and the pcmcia-3.0.7 that I ported a long
time ago.  It looks like Paul and others have kept it up to date.


> ... simply inserting my little Viking smart card adaptor causes a
> kernel panic every time, and having it in at boot does the same thing.


Ooooo.  I found that as well with my ATA flash cards and compact
adaptors.  I work on it from time to time, but haven't found the
problem yet.  I know that something doesn't match correctly between
the pcmcia-cs and the IDE driver.

At least other people now know....anyone have any ideas?  I have
not worked on it for a while, maybe I'll take a stab at it again.


	-- Dan

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