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does Debian provide PCMCIA support?

April 26, 2017Debian PCMCIA support

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does Debian provide PCMCIA support?

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The version of the kernel distributed with the Debian installation disks includes support for PCMCIA cards. That is, its .config file includes the line: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA=y. This configuration just supports modification of the IDE driver in the kernel to support IDE disks that are PCMCIA cards. Utilities that actually provide pcmcia card services have been developed by David Hinds. These utilities are provided in the Debian distribution by the package pcmcia-cs-KKK_VVV-RRR.i386.deb, where the components ‘VVV’ and ‘RRR’ follow the usual conventions on Debian package names, and the component ‘KKK’ refers to the kernel version for which the pcmcia-cs package was built.