PCMCIA can't be probed during kernel loading????

PCMCIA can't be probed during kernel loading????

[Yang Yang]

hello all:
	I am triying to get NFS mount root working on a DELL inspiron
	laptop, with only a PCMCIA card ( 3com589D ). I builtin the NFS_ROOT 
	support and hardware drivers into the kernel. Then booted the kernel
	but the eth0 is not discovered, and the messages show that cardbus
	can't probe any card. 

	I mean should the kernel be able to find the card itself and set it
	up , or does it need some user application ( like cardmgr ) to do it
	? if it's the latter case, basically means it's impossible to run a
	diskless station over NFS with only PCMCIA network card?

	thanks a lot

	Yang

Re: PCMCIA can't be probed during kernel loading????

[Russell King]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:06:48PM -0700, Yang Yang wrote:
> 	I mean should the kernel be able to find the card itself and set it
> 	up , or does it need some user application ( like cardmgr ) to do it
> 	?

Correct.

>	if it's the latter case, basically means it's impossible to run a
> 	diskless station over NFS with only PCMCIA network card?

Also correct.  However, you could use an initial ramdisk and load cardmgr
from there, configure the interface and mount the real root filesystem
that way.

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