I would say, first you should post the name of your card and the output of lspci, otherwhise its hard to help

Have you installed pcmciautils.tazpkg ?

mojo: thx, will do, will advise on results
kultex: thx, lspci output follows

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce Go 6200/6400] (rev a1)
06:05.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
06:05.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
06:05.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/7620 Combo CardBus, 1394a-2000 OHCI and SD/MS-Pro Controller
06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile (rev 03)
06:0b.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)

no good news - the card is supported by the tifm_7xx1 module - see http://hardware4linux.info/module/tifm_7xx1/ - perhaps also the modules tifm_sd, tifm_core (perhaps you could post lsmod from puppy to be shure)

the modules are not available in Slitaz - at least I could not find them.

perhaps a dev is reading this - the support of pcmcia mass storage devices is very poor in SliTaz - my delkin cardbus CF-card adapter is also not supported - see http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/comment/6849/#Comment_6849

it really would be nice, to get support for them

kultex; thx, will check out the references you provided and, will send output of lsmod in puppy
your knowledge of hardware is superior to mine, how did you make the determination that the card is supported by tifm_7xx1?

easy - here is the used chip:

06:05.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/7620 Combo CardBus

then in google: "Texas Instruments PCI7420/7620" and linux and / or modprobe and you will find the driver / module

tux@slitaz:~$ tazpkg search-pkgname tifm

Search result for file : tifm
================================================================================
linux-memstick
linux-mmc

================================================================================
2 pkg(s) found with file : tifm

Install this:
linux-memstick.tazpkg
linux-mmc.tazpkg

sorry mojo and lmart

so lmart just as root do:

tazpkg get-install linux-mmc
modprobe tifm_7xx1

and it should work

gents: appreciate your help and patience

mojo,
thx
installed pcmciautils, linux-memstick and linux-mmc


kultex,
thx
lsmod for slitaz (after installing pcmciautils, linux-memstick and linux-mmc) and puppy follow
modprobe tifm_7xx1 did nothing

working my way through things ... will advise on progress

slitaz.lsmod.output.20100822 follows:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
tifm_7xx1 4832 0
tifm_core 6000 1 tifm_7xx1
lib80211_crypt_wep 3172 1
ipw2200 119972 0
libipw 22648 1 ipw2200
lib80211 4804 3 lib80211_crypt_wep,ipw2200,libipw
yenta_socket 20988 1
rsrc_nonstatic 9136 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 27628 2 yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd_hda_codec_realtek 179412 1
snd_hda_intel 22020 1
snd_hda_codec 49928 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 5988 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 51780 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 16344 1 snd_pcm
snd 43584 8 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 5180 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7256 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm


lupu-501.lsmod.output.20100822 follows:
Module Size Used by
cpufreq_ondemand 5981 1
acpi_cpufreq 4587 0
fan 2478 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 165209 1
snd_hda_intel 14978 0
snd_hda_codec 38539 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 26845 0
snd_mixer_oss 9963 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 45385 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 4645 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_seq_dummy 907 0
snd_seq_oss 18888 0
snd_seq_midi 3156 0
snd_seq_midi_event 3592 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 11924 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 32379 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 3601 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd_timer 11986 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 30859 11 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_timer
soundcore 3403 1 snd
ipw2200 104102 0
libipw 18152 1 ipw2200
pcspkr 1179 0
cfg80211 90319 2 ipw2200,libipw
lib80211 2690 2 ipw2200,libipw
serio_raw 2928 0
i2c_i801 6146 0
i2c_core 11497 1 i2c_i801
ohci1394 20716 0
ieee1394 50116 1 ohci1394
e100 22022 0
mii 2650 1 e100
fbcon 27736 0
bitblit 3514 1 fbcon
softcursor 805 1 bitblit
tileblit 1509 1 fbcon
font 6916 1 fbcon
intel_agp 19189 0
agpgart 18904 1 intel_agp
shpchp 21148 0
pci_hotplug 18286 1 shpchp
battery 7164 0
evdev 5517 0
button 3522 0
thermal 9263 0
video 14642 0
output 1120 1 video
processor 24987 2 acpi_cpufreq
ac 2143 0
fuse 42549 0
aufs 110466 1
nls_iso8859_1 2937 3
nls_cp437 4465 3
usb_storage 29717 0
usbhid 18009 0
squashfs 15984 1
tifm_sd 6062 0
mmc_block 5921 0
mmc_core 34632 2 tifm_sd,mmc_block
tifm_7xx1 2914 0
tifm_core 3100 2 tifm_sd,tifm_7xx1
uhci_hcd 15444 0
ehci_hcd 25830 0
usbcore 91279 5 usb_storage,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
yenta_socket 16079 3
rsrc_nonstatic 6693 1 yenta_socket

what you mean with modprobe tifm_7xx1 did nothing

after you laod the moule you put in the CF-Card and it should be seen afterwards in the left side of pcmanfm - in SliTaz nothing pops up.....

slitaz has no tifm_sd :(

kultex; modprobe tifm_7xx1 did nothing; executed the command in terminal and it simply returned to the command line; nada, zilch
loaded the module, put in the CF-Card, nothing in pcmanfm

I have that issue with my DVD Drive actually. That's more a bug of HAL and maybe the older pcmanfm. I hear the latest beta of pcmanfm uses gvfs and has proper udev support - which removes the need for HAL.

Incidentally, did you check in your /media directory? Drives mounted by system appear in there even if it doesn't show up in pcmanfm. With my DVD Drive, I had to create the folder /media/dvd/ and mount the drive manually with mount /dev/dvd - it seems to work pretty well considering.

Trixar_za,
thx, no drive mounted in /media
?how does one check the device name?
once have device name, will do the following
mkdir /media/mountpointname
mount /dev/devicename /media/mountpointname

once complete for the CF card, assume the same process for the sony media stick, yes/no?

as root run

fdisk -l

if its not on the list, its not recogniced

you can verify this with puppy

after boot do

rmmod tifm_sd

and see if the the CF-card is still working - if not you need the module

kultex

thx,

aware of fdisk -1; device not listed in SliTaz, it is listed in puppy
unaware of rmmod; will run later today and let you know the results

Incidentally, which version of Puppy are you running? If it's Puppy 5 then it doesn't use HAL at all since it's based on Ubuntu 10.04, but extentions to udev instead.

As for which /dev device it is, I think following kultex's advice is the best for finding it. Then mounting it would just be a matter typing the right commands and maybe creating the folder for it in /media. If it's not getting recogniced then it's probably HAL's fault again.

Trixar_za
thx,
dual boot my Grug4Dos to SliTaz 3.0 xvesa and Puppy 5; no WinDoze
can handle fdisk command and manually creating the mount point and mounting
will run the rmmod command tonight

kultex,
fired up puppy; CF card is /dev/sdb1 (fdisk -l)
executed rmmod tifm_sd; nothing happenedd
launched ROX; able to R/W CF card

so I think it should work also in SliTaz, because tifm_sd seems not necessary, to get the cf-card working - and by the way, I am just a user like you.....