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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Hardware => Topic started by: Rick Smith on December 19, 2022, 03:46:55 pm

Title: pcmcia
Post by: Rick Smith on December 19, 2022, 03:46:55 pm
Greetings,

I have arca running flawlessly on an old dell latitude d610 with one exception.  The pcmcia slot appears to not be loaded, I thought it was the old card I had that was bad, but arca reports no pcmcia slot.  How do I rectify this? Would be great to use usb card or a little faster network...

Hope everyone is well

Rick
Title: Re: pcmcia
Post by: Martin Iturbide on December 19, 2022, 10:28:11 pm
Hi Rick

I no longer remember much about PCMCIA devices. I have some information on the wiki here: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Socket_Chipsets_Matrix_PCMCIA

I guess it is required to know which PCIMCIA chipset does the Dell laptop has, and what PCMCIA card device do you want to use?

Can you run "testlog generic (http://88watts.net/dlfile.php?F=testlog-)" and upload the log file to gave more context on how is your hardware and config.sys?

Regards
Title: Re: pcmcia
Post by: Rick Smith on December 20, 2022, 08:08:59 pm

I no longer remember much about PCMCIA devices. I have some information on the wiki here: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Socket_Chipsets_Matrix_PCMCIA

I guess it is required to know which PCIMCIA chipset does the Dell laptop has, and what PCMCIA card device do you want to use?

Can you run "testlog generic (http://88watts.net/dlfile.php?F=testlog-)" and upload the log file to gave more context on how is your hardware and config.sys?


Here is the log file.  I tried to reply to this post on the arca machine with firefox, however the buttons to reply etc at the bottom of the message were not there? Is there a reason I would experience that?

Rick
Title: Re: pcmcia
Post by: Martin Iturbide on December 20, 2022, 11:06:14 pm
I tried to reply to this post on the arca machine with firefox, however the buttons to reply etc at the bottom of the message were not there? Is there a reason I would experience that?

I see the button on Firefox on ArcaOS. The only way I don't see it is if the user is not logged.  (picture attached)


Back to the PCMCIA issue, I still do not have a solid clue:

I see the devices report:
  Vendor 104Ch Texas Instruments
 Device 8036h PCI6515 Cardbus Controller
 
  Vendor 104Ch Texas Instruments
 Device 8038h PCI6515 SmartCard Controller

And the config.sys shows this:
 BASEDEV=PCMCIA.SYS /P
 BASEDEV=TI1225CB.SYS
 BASEDEV=AUTODRV2.SYS
 DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VPCMCIA.SYS
 DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\PCMSSDIF.SYS
 DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\PCM2SRAM.SYS
 DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\FLSH2MTD.SYS
 DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\PCM2FLSH.SYS
 BASEDEV=PCM2ATA.ADD /S:2 /!DM /NOBEEP
 ...
 BASEDEV=OS2PCARD.DMD

Do you have the PC Card Director (https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/PC_Card_Director) tool there? Do you see any activity, beep or anything on the PCMCIA tools that a card is inserted when you plug one?

Regards
 
Title: Re: pcmcia
Post by: Rick Smith on December 21, 2022, 07:29:33 am

I see the button on Firefox on ArcaOS. The only way I don't see it is if the user is not logged.  (picture attached)


Back to the PCMCIA issue, I still do not have a solid clue:

I see the devices report:
  Vendor 104Ch Texas Instruments
 Device 8036h PCI6515 Cardbus Controller
 
  Vendor 104Ch Texas Instruments
 Device 8038h PCI6515 SmartCard Controller

And the config.sys shows this:
 BASEDEV=PCMCIA.SYS /P
 BASEDEV=TI1225CB.SYS
 BASEDEV=AUTODRV2.SYS
 DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VPCMCIA.SYS
 DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\PCMSSDIF.SYS
 DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\PCM2SRAM.SYS
 DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\FLSH2MTD.SYS
 DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\PCM2FLSH.SYS
 BASEDEV=PCM2ATA.ADD /S:2 /!DM /NOBEEP
 ...
 BASEDEV=OS2PCARD.DMD

Do you have the PC Card Director (https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/PC_Card_Director) tool there? Do you see any activity, beep or anything on the PCMCIA tools that a card is inserted when you plug one?


I did try running pccard director, it claimed my machine was a thinkpad of sorts but the installation failed. So not sure what to try next, its not terribly important was just something fun to work on.

another note, I am trying to cp some files of the arca system to a truenas, I can mount the drives ok I can change to drive create dirs ect.  however when I try to copy a folder from arca to the network storage it will copy the dir but not any of the contents I get

cp: cannot fstat `g:\os2\ftn\config\binkd.cfg`: permission denied

Not sure what is going on when I ls -la its root:root owns everything I should be able to copy those files

Rick