DAQCard PCMCIA Howto Draft

All,

I recently had some difficulty installing Comedi on both my Gentoo
machines (laptop and desktop) intended to utilize a Nat'l Instruments
PCMCIA 6062E and a DIO-24.  Under gentoo, the latest versions in the
portage tree were rather old so I chose to download the latest CVS
packages.  The primary problem with utilizing the CVS packages with
Gentoo (and probably other distros with the Gentoo & Debian layout) is
the configuration scripts aren't pointed to the right file locations.
Another problem is the /etc/pcmcia/config files aren't modified
correctly.

Installation Script:
This is the short script that I utilized for the Gentoo installation.
It may not cover the entire setup configuration but I have not found a
problem yet.

#! /bin/sh
# configure comedi for Gentoo installation without using portage

./configure --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var --libdir=/lib --oldincludedir=/usr/include
--infodir=/usr/info --mandir=/usr/share/man 


The next hurdle is configuring the PCMCIA configuration files.  It has
been long enough since I installed the package that I cannot remember if
the comedi, comedi.conf and comedi.opts files from the
$/comedilib/etc/pcmcia folders are moved to /etc/pcmcia.  If not, copy
them over.

The file /etc/pcmcia/config file needs to be modified to recognize the
card installed.  To do this, insert your PCMCIA card and look in the
system log.  You should see a message like 
cardmgr[460]: unsupported card in socket 1   
cardmgr[460]: product info: "National Instruments", "DAQCard-6062E"
cardmgr[460]: manfid 0x010b, 0x02c4

I added the following lines to my /etc/pcmcia/config file:

device "ni_mio_cs"
  class "comedi" module "ni_mio_cs"

device "ni_daq_dio24"
  class "comedi" module "ni_daq_dio24"

#
# Data Acquisition adapter definitions
#
card "National Instruments DAQCard-6062E"
  manfid 0x010b, 0x02c4
  bind "ni_mio_cs"

card "National Instruments DAQCard-DIO-24"
  manfid 0x010b, 0x475c
  bind "ni_daq_dio24"

A great resource for dealing with unsupported cards is the Linux PCMCIA
Howto
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.1. 

Let me know if this helps!

Duane