Re: Enabling PCMCIA serial ports without pcmciautils/pcmcia_cs in 2.6?

From: Russell King
Date: Tue Aug 09 2005 - 04:19:02 EST


On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:03:24AM +0200, Dag Bakke wrote:
> Is this really necessary? I'd guess that serial cards are some of the
> simpler pcmcia targets to enable? (I could be very wrong..)
> Anyone got an idea about alternative solutions, or can state the minimum
> binaries/files I need to enable this card? (Advantech COMpad-32/85B-4)

Have you tried just running up a really recent kernel (eg, 2.6.13-rc6)
with PCMCIA and serial (including PCMCIA serial support) built in,
plugging the card in, and seeing what happens?

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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