The other day, a friend handed me the CF card from his digital camera. I inserted it into a CF-PCMCIA adapter and slid it into my laptop. `cardctl ident` easily told me that I had an ATA storage device there, but at that point I was stumped. I could not for the life of me figure out what device file in /dev/ I needed to reference when mounting it! A search of the SDB reveals only one reference to 'compactflash', and that dates from the days of 6.4, pertaining to a bug in a driver. The reference manual has no references to compact flash, and its only reference to pcmcia talks only about network cards. Could someone enlighten me as to the correct device name, and point me towards better docs in the future? Here's a report of a mostly positive experience, in the hopes that it is useful for someone else who may tread the same path: I was successful yesterday in using a D-LINK DCF-650W wireless card on my laptop. It's in the CF form factor, but is about a millimeter thicker than the CF memory cards. I had to (very carefully!) take a dremel tool with an abrasive cut-off wheel and cut out a rectangular section of the top cover on the CF-PCMCIA adapter, to provide clearance for the CF-wireless card to fit into the adapter. Even so, it is still a smidgen thicker than a standard PCMCIA card, so it wouldn't fit into the top slot of my Dell Latitude. (It did fit snugly in the top slot of a ThinkPad). Cardctl ident identifies the card as a D-Link DCF-650W, but card services drops a message into /var/log/messages that it found a "Z-COM XI300 11Mb/s 802.11b WLAN Card", and reports unresolved symbolics as it fails, trying to load several different modules, from both the kernel and external module directories. I switched from 'kernel' to 'external' PCMCIA systems, rebooted, and placed the following in /etc/pcmcia/config, and it successfully loaded on the first try: card "D-Link DCF-650W" manfid 0x0601, 0x0002 bind "wvlan_cs" However, dhcpcd gave up and backgrounded itself after only about a second. I had to issue `dhcpcd -r`, and it finished the negotiation on the second or third try. I had encountered this problem when I first installed SuSE 8, with my 3-com ethernet card. Unfortunately, I forgot where I found and changed the timeout parameter to extend the 'grace period'. The hardwired ethernet has been functioning fine for several months now, but this problem has again cropped up (on both the wireless and hardwired cards) as soon as I switched PCMCIA systems from 'kernel' to 'external'. They're both invoking dhcpcd, so why would they refer to a different config file??? -- Rick Green "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin