Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Compiling cardbus devices monolithic doesn't work? | Date | Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:34:37 -0400 |
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Ahem, second attempt:
On Monday 18 August 2003 03:44, Russell King wrote:
> You still need to use cardmgr to bind the driver to the device. > It seems to work for me here on SA11x0 platforms, and I'm not aware > of it breaking at any point in the 2.5 series. > > While it is true that Cardbus devices plugged into cardbus slots do > not need cardmgr, PCMCIA devices still do.
The hotplug scripts from RH9 are there and seem happy, I thought cardmgr was called from them. (The same setup works in 2.4.21, albeit with modules enabled. I should compile a monolithic 2.4 kernel and see what it does...)
> > (P.S. And while I'm at it, what's the relationship between orinoco_cs, > > orinoco, and hermes? The /proc/modules dependency tree thing says > > they're using each other in a chain. Probably true, just a bit odd, I > > thought. Couldn't figure out which driver I needed, compiled all three, > > and it loaded ALL of them. Can't complain, the card works under 2.4. > > This is just a random "huh?") > > IIRC hermes provides the low level interface to the device, orinoco > provides the interface between it and the network stack, and orinoco_cs > provides a bridge between the PCMCIA subsystem and orinoco.
Now I'm confused. I thought the _cs on the end was short for "cardbus"...
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