Jeff wrote:
After fighting this for a few hours, I got a hunch...in my custom kernel I did not include ISA Bus support nor ISA Plug-n-Play support. I didn't think I needed that on what i thought was a purely PCI system. Well, apparently there is a relationship between the PCMCIA Cardbus and the ISA bus, because I recompiled my kernel adding the ISA stuff back and now it works fine. Perhaps someone can explain this to me, since I don't really get it beyond the hunch I had.
PCMCIA is a derivation of the ISA bus. The kernel requires ISA support for PCMCIA to work (I don't think ISAPNP is required.) Cardbus is PCI based.