Re: PCMCIA can't be probed during kernel loading????

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:37:36 +0100

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:06:48PM -0700, Yang Yang wrote:
> I mean should the kernel be able to find the card itself and set it
> up , or does it need some user application ( like cardmgr ) to do it
> ?

Correct.

> if it's the latter case, basically means it's impossible to run a
> diskless station over NFS with only PCMCIA network card?

Also correct. However, you could use an initial ramdisk and load cardmgr
from there, configure the interface and mount the real root filesystem
that way.

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