Re: [LAU] rme express cards

From: Peter Plessas <plessas@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Oct 05 2011 - 23:28:13 EEST

Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 09:48:39PM +0200, Peter Plessas wrote:
>
>> So the card is transparent to the Alsa drivers in the sense that there
>> is no difference between the PCMCIA and the Expresscard version. Is
>> there firmware issues?
>
> I didn't experience any problems, things just worked OOTB with
> a plain Archlinux installation (which is 'minimal' compared to
> some other distros), and nothing extra.
>
> The one thing I didn't find out so far is how to enable the card
> if it is plugged in after booting. It should just be a matter of
> restarting the right set of modules, but I must be missing one.

Whenever my kernels were responsible for uploading the firmware, they
did whenever the card was inserted.
Did you try 'pccardctl eject; pccardctl insert'?
Don't know if hdsploader can be used to force an upload.

best, P

>
> Ciao,
>
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