10. Cardbus/PCMCIA & CF

The MII boards feature a cardbus/PCMCIA slot and a CompactFlash slot. (The CF slot is connected to the cardbus controller.) These resources are supported by the linux PCMCIA system, which should be installed with any major linux distribution, such as Red Hat or SuSe. If your distribution does not automatically detect and load the drivers you can do it manually:

bash# modprobe yenta_socket
bash# modprobe ide-cs
bash# cardmgr

Unfortunately the EPIA MII cannot boot from CompactFlash - it is connected to the cardbus controller and there is not PCMCIA boot option in the BIOS. If you want to boot from flash you must buy and install an IDE/CF converter and install the compactflash card as an IDE device.