the pcmcia-test2 is available for download
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagerdl.html
regards
elmar
The bootloader is not able to boot from usb from the PCMCIA on these two very old laptops. It does detect a PCMCIA usb expension card either in slot1 / slot2 on both machines, but they both give a error that it doesn't find any suitable devices on the card to boot "the usual red letter warning".
Travelmate7100TE "you know :p"
cardbus=Cirrus Logic PD 6832 rev c1
Fujitsu Siemens C6175 "you also know :p"
cardbus=TI pci 142000:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device 1095
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 18100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 08000000-0bfff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 0c000000-0ffff000
I/O window 0: 00001800-000018ff
I/O window 1: 00001c00-00001cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device 1095
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 18101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10000000-13fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 14000000-17fff000
I/O window 0: 00003000-000030ff
I/O window 1: 00003400-000034ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
Cardbus brand "sweex" it has a NEC usb2.0 chipset.
06:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: DTK Computer Device 0105
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at 14000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
06:00.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: DTK Computer Device 0105
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at 14001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
06:00.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: DTK Computer Device 0205
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 68, IRQ 11
Memory at 14002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd