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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > David Moberg wrote:
> > > Cardbus is to PCMCIA as PCI is to ISA. PCI and Cardbus are 32-bit,
> > > ISA and PCMCIA are (mainly) 16-bit.
> >
> > The BL3 cardmgr does not do CardBus.  In order to keep
> > it small, only standard PCMCIA cards were included.

I compiled another kernel, answering Y to CONFIG_ISA because non-Cardbus 
PCMCIA is 16-bit like ISA and needs ISA support to work.

I answered Y to CONFIG_HOTPLUG so that I would be allowed to answer N to 
CONFIG_PCMCIA, which I had to do in order to compile modules with the 
pcmcia-cs package from sourceforge.  There were no other questions about 
PCMCIA after that.  I left PM and PNP set to N, but in the .config file 
for pcmcia I saw USE_PM=y.  I answered Y to network support but N to all 
individual drivers because the pcmcia source code makes them separately.

After I did a make clean make dep make config for the kernel, I then did a 
very short and easy make config (Y to cardbus, defaults to others) in 
/usr/src/pcmcia* (after unpacking the package in /usr/src) and then a make 
all.  The documentation refers to answering questions about 
CONFIG_SERIALCS etc. but there were no questions, I had to make all.

I have yet to test things but I have posted to
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31/*la*  (laptop kernel)
configla.431
bzimagla.431
modules-la-nonpcmcia-431.tgz
modules-la-pcmcia-431.tgz

I included just the nonpcmcia modules made for this kernel, but you can 
use the ones in my larger modules package for the desktop kernel.  Put 
these modules and the pcmcia ones in /usr/src/2.4.31/misc and /pcmcia or 
various other subdirectories if you prefer to keep track of them that way. 
I think just putting things in /usr/src/2.4.31 would even work.

I put into the pcmcia modules package /usr/src/pcmcia*/modules/*.o files: 
pcmcia_core, ds, i82365, cardbus.o and tcic.o.  Do I need bulkmem.o , 
cistpl.o, pci_fixup.o, etc. or are they just part of source code?  I also 
included all files ending in cs.o or cb.o from /clients.

To use Cardbus do I add insmod cardbus.o to /etc/pcmcia/start (or replace 
i82365.o)?  The documentation said i82365 module (but not kernel) driver 
also supports Cardbus, but in another place it said to use yenta_socket.o 
instead of i82365.o in pcmcia startup file (which did not get compiled but 
came in the SW10.2 package).  I think there are several systems in use 
now, which is confusing.

My Cardbus card can also be used with not 3c575_cb.o but 3c59x (the normal 
non-pcmcia module?), by the 'hotplug' method, same for netgear and tulip, 
which must be what DamnSmallLinux tried to do with them.

Do I really need HOTPLUG=Y to use PCMCIA?

SW10.2 cardmgr is 42K, the one in BL3.32 35K, not a major size difference 
and maybe attributable to the newer library. I think Steven said he 
compiled cardmgr without Cardbus to make a smaller cardmgr, or maybe he 
left out cardbus.o (9K) to make a smaller package?