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Re: Compaq Armada Notebook AHA-1420 PCMCIA Problem
Well, Redhat worked fine for me on a Compaq Presario 1020....
which IMHO is more awkward than the Armada.
Thanks,
Alain.
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install PCMCIA support on a notebook and it doesn't
> work.
>
> System:
> Compaq Armada Notebook + 32Mb RAM + 1Gb HDisk
> PCMCIA SCSI Card Adaptec AHA-1420 Slim SCSI
> SCSI CD-ROM NEC
> Debian Release 1.2
> Linux Kernel 2.0.27 (including PCMCIA, SCSI support)
>
> Yes, I did read following documentation:
> Frequently Asked Questions and HOWTOs
> The Linux Laptop Home Page
> Linux Hardware HOWTO
> Linux PCMCIA Information
> http://www.aplac.hut.fi/staff/sakari/armada.html
> http://www.ma.ultranet.com/~bniece/laptop.html
>
> Problem:
> When I run "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start", it beeps one high beep and
> one
> low beep.
> It does recognise Cirrus PCMCI hardware but it doesn't recognise
> properly
> AHA-1420 PCMCIA card. It identifies it as "Anonymous Memory Card".
> And
>
> the SCSI doesn't work.
>
> Please, send me all the relevant PCMCIA/SCSI configuration files for
> such configuration.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
> Please send replies to mailto:alexr@gezernet.co.il
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
> alexr@gezernet.co.il
>
> Alexander Rier
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>