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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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>