i just got a free 5x86 100 8MB notebook..win95 was a dog so i wiped it o ut..
i got the base of slink installed and booted up. pcmcia services start..but i can't figure out how to get the cdrom working, or even what device it would be. win95 said it was a SCSI pcmcia card..linux says its a parallel PCMCIA card. specifically linux says - unsupported card in socket 1 product info: "KME", "KXLC001", "00" manfid: 0x0032, 0x0104 function: 3 (parallel) and win95 said Panasonic KXL001 (SCSI) on I/O 0240-025F IRQ 3 i checked /proc/scsi/scsi and no devices are detected..ive tried mounting /dev/scd0 and it doesnt recognize it iehter..according to the pcmcia howto it *looks* like this card is a qlogic card..so i inserted the module..no error..but still no device. The drive is a Panasonic KXL-D720. I've checked www pages, news groups..nothing seems to shed a bit of light on this. i only need this cdrom to install the rest of slink..after that i can throw it away and never see it again i don't care..unless someone knows another way of installing slink? there is no modem or network card in this thing. and copying package-by-package via floppy doesnt sound fun. there is no identification on the pcmcia card itself other then "PAnasonic PCMCIA card for CD-ROM player" im confused as to what kind of interface it is..it must be scsi..linux must be..wrong because there is a SCSI ID setting on the cdrom..is there a way to hard code the device type into the pcmcia utils? this has only the base system installed..so if i have to recompile something it will have to be done on another machine ..with a completly different hardware/software config. help! nate
