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Topic: Mini PCI to CF card problem

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Hi guys,
I have a Asus WL-500G which i am using to rsync and play music files. I have comfigured a USB stick as a storage device. But I have noticed that there is a PCI slot in the device. So i bought a PCI to CF card adapter and connected it to the device on PCI slot. But i am not able to find any driver to make it work that CF card as a storage device. I cant even see in 'fdisk -l' any storage media connected. Can any body tell me what i have to do furthur???

I doubt you are going to get that to work without knowing what the controller is on the cf reader.  Once you figure that out, you will need to compile a driver for it provided one exists.  If it exists in the kernel tree is usually just a matter turning on the Kconfig option  or makeinga kernel mod package.   Look at the kamikaze docs for instructions on how to make those, but I'll warn you now that the package creation process is buggy from my own experience.  If it's just a kconfig option that needs to be enabled, I would pick a module that already being used and add the lines to it.  That method worked every time for me.

(Last edited by nlinux on 3 Dec 2007, 22:22)

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