Well, there are USB controllers, but USB support fails, thanks to the brain-dead BIOS provided by the arrogant twits at Panasonic (or as Aitch says, the "Good Folks at Matsushita Industries"), which fails to assign an IRQ.Jesse wrote:...
I had a look at the Puppy Linux boot hints (more /initrd/sbin/init) and the Puppy Linux boot hint 'pfix' has this option for booting, relevant to pcmcia:
usbcard) USBCARD="yes";; #boot from pcmcia drive.
So all you really need to do is use a text editor and add "pfix=usbcard" into your kernel boot parameters.
I know that it says 'usb', but your card might have usb internally and just not advertise that fact.
So I'm afraid your project is a lost cause on my CF-25 Toughbook. But I'm willing to give it a shot.
I can't see one.Ok, so, how to setup your kernel boot parameters?
If you've got a file called syslinux.cfg in the root directory.
Grub won't work on my frugal install....
If you're using GRUB, open up the (HD)/boot/grub/menu.lst file:
I'm using a batch file with a script provided by Crash to boot Puppy 3.01 Retro from DOS:
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LINLD.COM image=vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz "cl=root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=idehd acpi=on"
looks like this needs a bit more handholding...The basic idea is to find the boot config file and the kernel load line and add in pfix=usbcard. Its usually a small file, less than 1000 bytes or so. The kernel file is usually called 'vmlinuz' with Puppy Linux.
Okies, best of luck in getting it going.
Regards
Jesse