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> Wireless cardbus continued:
>
> DSL linux supports one wireless cardbus card. It has yenta_socket, which I
> thought was needed for cardbus but it was not made when I compiled pcmcia.
It is not part of the standalone package, just kernel-based drivers.

Sourceforge pcmcia-cs README says it should work with kernels 2.0, 2.2 and 
2.4 to create standalone driver modules
pcmcia_core
ds
i82365 (which works with 16-bit PCMCIA and 32-bit cardbus cards)

Alternately, you can compile cardbus into the kernel, in which case you 
also get yenta_socket, needed for cardbus since this i82365 only does 
16-bit.

DSL has yenta_socket so is using the compiled-in approach.  Kernel 2.4.31.

I compiled all four modules as kernel modules, and they have different 
md5sums from the standalone modules.

The standalone modules are said not to work with USB cardbus cards.
(I don't know if they work with wireless cardbus cards, but I get the same 
problem with them all - cannot assign an IRQ - tried two laptops because 
Toshiba is said to be odd).

I therefore changed the 'start' script to insert these new modules (from a 
subdirectory) and added to config:

device "usb_cb" ... module "usbcore", "ehci-hcd"

instead of manfid use pci (get numbers swith cardctl ident).

yenta_socket will not insert.  A few unresolved symbols, and I cannot find 
these error messages anywhere online.  unresolved symbol dead_socket etc

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31/pcmcia-kernel/
contains all four files compiled using my 2.4.31 kernel source (plus 
cb_enabler from the pcmcia package).

Even without a cardbus card in the slot, it should be possible to insmod 
these modules, with kernel 2.2.  I would appreciate, Steven, if you could 
compile the kernel modules including cardbus (yenta_socket) for 2.2.26, 
and see if you can insmod yenta_socket in your Tecra (having set BIOS to 
support cardbus rather than 16-bit pcmcia).  Insmod it just before or 
after i82365. It only requires changing a few lines of .config for kernel.
With make menuconfig I made three changes in order to compile the four 
modules.  Since I am not using any modules in the pcmcia package for the 
USB cardbus card, I don't think I need to recompile the package again.
But could cardmgr need recompiling too?  It is also in the package.

Click on:
General Setup
Support for hot-pluggable devices
PCMCIA/cardbus support

Select:
<M>PCMCIA/CardBus support
[*] CardBus support
[ ] Databook TCIC host bridge support
[ ] i82092 compatible bridge support
[*] i82365 compatible bridge support
(This should support both 16 and 32 bit cards - no idea
what the middle two drivers are for.)

The USB card ought to work in 2.2 with non-storage USB devices such as a 
USB mouse.

My aironet card no longer picks up the neighbor's weak signals.  One of my 
cardbus cards can detect weaker signals.


Sindi