Re: pcmcia & floppy on HP xt1500

[Al Stone <ahs3@fc.hp.com>]

There's a pretty good mailing list at
http://swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/omnibook
that might be of some help.  Try also:
http://www.linux-laptop.net and
http://www.mobilix.org.

mono toy wrote:
> dear list,
>
> does anyone have experience with debian on HP models?
>
> i finally managed to get basic things to work on my xt1500, but no luck with
> pcmcia nor floppy.
>
> - pcmcia: it just says:
>
>     Linux PCMCIA services 3.1.33
>         kernel build: 2.4.18-bf2.4 unknown
>         options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
>     Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
>         no bridges found.
>
> - usb floppy:
>     
>     it detects the usb device, but i can't mount it. what /dev/ could it be?
>
> mono@tycho:~$ uname -prsnm
> Linux tycho 2.4.18-bf2.4 i686 unknown
>
> mono@tycho:~$ lspci
> (...)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3148
> 00:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc.: Unknown device 1410
> (...)
>
> many thanks,
>
> nico


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Ciao,
al
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