New Hardware

[Dawes, Stephen]

Keith,

All though I know nothing about external PCMCIA readers, I believe that
you should be able to get it to work, based on a comment that Janina
made during the discussion about software synths.  She was talking about
a possible PCMCIA synth instead of a software synth, to which I replied
that may work for laptop users but not desktop users, and that is when I
found out that you could get a PCMCIA reader for a desktop computer.  Oh
yeah, there was no mention on how to install and get it working.

Ok, I know that I did not answer your question, but I thought that it
may shed a ray of hope for you.  By the way, there is a PCMCIA HOWTO at
http://linuxdocs.org that may shed some light on the problem for you.  I
believe that this HOWTO looks at not only PCMCIA for the laptop
environment, but as well, it address the kind of thing that you are
trying to do.

I am surprised that all the helpful suggestions are not there for this
topic, unless, you are doing the extremely obscure this time.


Steve Dawes
PHONE:  (403) 268-5527. 
E-MAIL ADDRESS:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Watson, Keith [mailto:kwatson at grtk.com]
> Sent: 2001 July 25 7:32 AM
> To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
> Subject: New Hardware
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a bit of a method problem to inquire about. As some of you may
> already know, I have recently purchaed an ISA PCMCIA Card 
> Reader for my
> Desktop system. What I am not sure about is how to go about 
> adding this new
> hardware.
> 
> My first attempt keeps locking up my system. Here is what I 
> have done. After
> installing the card I did a pnpdump to a file, /etc/isapnp.conf, and
> uncommented the appropriate lines. After this point I was at 
> a loss for the
> next step. I dug around and found that the file in 
> /etc/sysconfig named
> pcmcia had the line PCMCIA=no, PCIC=, so I set it to PCMCIA=yes, and
> PCIC=i82365. Oh, forgot to mention this is a Red Hat box. I 
> also found that
> the pcmcia service was not enabled under setup. I enabled it, and ran
> service pcmcia start. Nothing! I am at a loss at this point. 
> Can anyone make
> any suggestions?
> 
> Oh, and if it helps the unit is a Action Tec PC700.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Keith
> 
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