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boula

Member

Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 2

PCMCIA daemon does not exist

hi,

I am new to archlinux and have troubles to install a wifi PCMCIA card on an old laptop (Pentium 3)

So before going further, I try to make pcmcia work properly. I installed the pcmciautils package, then lspcmcia tells me:

Socket 0 Bridge:        [yenta_cardbus]         (bus ID: 0000:00:0c.0)
Socket 0 Device 0:      [-- no driver --]       (bus ID: 0.0)

that sounds me good.

I saw in different examples of rc.conf file in the wiki, that a pcmcia daemon exists and should be quoted in it, but I don't find any pcmcia script in /etc/rc.d
I check if it /etc/rc.d/pcmcia was in the files list of pcmciautils package, it isn't.
So, which package is to be installed? I don't find anything in the english and french arch ressources.

Thanks

sokkalf

Member

Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 19

Re: PCMCIA daemon does not exist

Have you tried just inserting the card? I have a PCMCIA wifi card myself, and it just works (with madwifi drivers, it's an atheros card). I don't have any PCMCIA daemon. In fact, there's no mention of PCMCIA in rc.conf at all, neither modules nor daemons, everything gets autodetected and loaded when I plug the card in.

boula

Member

Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 2

Re: PCMCIA daemon does not exist

Yes, I tried, but I think my problem is not here. I have another laptop on archlinux, and I have no PCMCIA daemon on it like this one, but the pcmcia ethernet card works. So I think the pcmcia daemon is deprecated, maybe no longer needed with udev.
So I will write another post, for the real problem, that is infact concerning the recognition of the wifi card.

thank you

byte

Member

From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: PCMCIA daemon does not exist

There is no pcmcia (or cardbus) daemon.
Try to post more:
- dmesg (after plugging in the card of course)
- lspci
- lspcmcia (ok, done)
- pccardctl info

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