Baslinux mailing list

[baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

Who are you?

> I have a Xircom CreditcCard PS-CE2-10 ethernet adapter, and I'm having
> trouble finding drivers for it.  So far, I've only managed to find the
> source code for BSD drivers, which of course won't compile on Linux.

A web search suggests it uses xirc2ps_cs (like most other xircom cards).
You need to add lines to pcmcia/config and copy Steven's precompiled 
module from the BL3.50 site to /lib/modules/2.2.26/pcmcia

cardctl ident should tell you among other things (but I got this info from 
someone's posting on the web)  (Can cardmgr also provide this info?)

manfid  0x0105, 0x010b

You need two sections in config:

device "xirc2ps_cs"
   class "network"  module "xirc2ps_cs"

card "Xircom Creditcard PS-CE2-10"
  manfid 0x0105, 0x010b
  bind "xirc2ps_cs"

This will make any card with that manfid use the module xirc2ps_cs in the 
pcmcia directory.

This card was not listed in the large Slackware 7.1 pcmcia config so is 
probably newer than 7.1

DamnSmallLinux live CD detected all but one of many PCMCIA cards I fed it 
and lsmod showed which module it used.  Knoppix should in theory do the 
same but I could not get it working on any of my laptops (even booting as 
knoppix 2 to use only 32MB RAM, no gui).

You are lucky it is not a cardbus card, which needs a module not provided 
for BL3 that I could not manage to compile.

> Also, is there any partition manager that I can use to make an ext2
> partition while the hard drive is still mounted?  I run BL3 off of MS-DOS,
> and so I can't just wipe the whole hdd to make the partition, but I can't
> think of any other way.

PQMagic will shrink an existing DOS partition and you can then reboot to 
BL3 loop and use the freed space for an ext2 partition.  Will the free 
Ranish partition manager do the same?

> Thanks.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org