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CompactFlash card problems - why it is worth to report them

December 31st, 2007

Few days ago Ångström distribution was released. Currently machine mentors tests images and release them so their devices will be also supported and ready for users.

Users often have CompactFlash cards which we (developers) do not have. Some of them will be hit by miscellaneous problems. For example their WiFi card which was nicely working with [...]

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OpenZaurus 3.5.4.2-rc2

September 2nd, 2006

Today I released third testing version of OpenZaurus 3.5.4.2 version. It support only two models:

poodle (SL-5600/B500) tosa (SL-6000)

I decided to do not ship collie (SL-5000/5500) images as they need some work (for example they lack udev) and as usual there is a problem to get OPIE/GPE images fit in this small rootfs space.

The most important changes [...]

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Handling PCMCIA/CF cards in Linux

June 14th, 2006

I do not like a way how PCMCIA/CF cards are handled under Linux. For kernels < 2.6.13-rc1 the only choice is pcmcia-cs package with lot of files in /etc/pcmcia/ which are just cardctl ident output edited a bit with added driver name:

root@c7×0:~# cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: “Pretec”, “CompactWLAN Card 802.11b”, “2.5″ manfid: [...]

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