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