Re: Desperation = SRAM / Linear Flash Cards

Peter Frischknecht wrote:

>Is there ANY distro (old or new) where Linear Flash/SRAM cards are
>detected with the stock install?  I have spare computers and I would not
>mind using them just to get this show on the road.
>
>Knopix was mentioned, but I booted with 3.3 and it was not able to
>recognize my cards (two-tone beep).
>  
>
I just tried Gentoo LiveCD 2004.0, no go on pcmcia -- I thought it 
worked before.

Gentoo on my notebook recognized the card fine.  It's not totally 
up-to-date with emerge/portage, but here what works for me vanilla 
kernel 2.4.25 and pcmcia-cs 3.2.5-r1.  No tweaks to /etc/pcmcia.  My 
kernel .config:
http://geeksite.org/notebook-config for your reference. 

BTW... my card is... SM9FA4088IP3ASD.  An exact match to yours!  So it 
will work, unless it's damaged.

If you ever get it recognized, remember write the 2MB image 4 times: 
"cat 2m-image 2m-image 2m-image 2m-image > 8m-image" so you will fill up 
the card.  Use wrflash or whatever from openap to initialize the card.  
After you write do diff on your memory and your image.  I thought I had 
a good image on the card (last year) and tried to get it to boot in the 
2450 over and over... but it was a bad image.

(This weekend I was able to reflash using tftp, the reflash script was 
broken... so I just copied and pasted in minicom... worked pretty good.  
So it's been along time since I used wrflash etc.)

-Scott