PCMCIA slot with Amithlon

[mpiva]

I finally got a PCMCIA network card for my laptop.  It's a Netgear MA401 (which is listed as working with the prism2 drivers on Aminet).  As I also have Amithlon on my laptop, I thought I'd try getting the card to work with it but can't seem to get it to recognize the card.  Does anyone know anyway to get it to work or is there simply no PCMCIA support in Amithlon at all?

[mpiva]

 :boohoo:
I just found the following on the Amithlon-Open Yahoo group.
The first part is written by one ambitious coder (Bilo) in Jan 2007.  The second is the (rather depressing) response from Bernie.

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> What I am trying to do is to add PCMCIA support for the Amithlon kernel.
> In the past I asked the questions about Wireless card but at the time there
> was no support on the AmigaOS side so someone in the Forum told me that as
> there is no support for wifi on the Amiga side there would be no help or
> support for an Amithold driver. Well at present I am running on my A1200
> Wifi via PCMCIA card (Lucent card) so I was trying to get that running on
> my laptop (using the same driver)

If you want to use an Amiga-side driver, you might "only" need to work
out how to get the memory mapped I/O area accessible for the 68k emulation;
If you are really lucky, that I/O area might even be at an address
already mapped.
On the other hand, the PCMCIA on the A600/A1200, from memory, has all
sorts of properties you won't find in your laptop; Starting with a
fixed address, adding some (apparently subtly broken) ways of controlling
resets, to being the 16-bit ISA variant of PCMCIA (i.e. "real" PCMCIA,
which looks just like an ISA bus to the chips --- your laptop is almost
certainly "CardBus", which looks like a PCI bus). It is extremely
unlikely that you'd have any chance to make a driver work unless you
have source code access, and a reasonably firm understanding of the
various standards.