cf-card problem...

swoppe · 09-19-2003, 12:27 PM

Hi!
I have a IBM Thinkpad X23 with Slack 9 installed and it's working ok, except the internal cf-card/microdrive reader... I can't get it to work...

This is what i get when I lspci

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 41)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY
02:03.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
02:03.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
02:05.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 41)

If I insera a card into the reader and tail -f /var/log/message I get nothing of value...

pkoebbe · 09-19-2003, 02:31 PM

I don't know a lot about this topic, and even less about Slackware, but I'll share with you what I know about using a CF card in Debian.

I use a PCMCIA/CF adapter, and cardmgr loads ide-cs.o at boot. When everything is working correctly, the CF card gets mapped to /dev/hde1, and I can mount it from there. I know that if ide-cs.o doesn't load, I can't get to my CF card. The only other thing I know is that if I have a custom kernel, I have to recompile the module to match it.

Good luck,
Phillip