PCCARDCTL(8)

💖 PCCARDCTL 💖

okay bestie, so pccardctl lives in section 8 of the System Manager's Manual (the big-kid sysadmin section, yk) and it's your little remote control for PCMCIA cards. there's also lspcmcia which is literally the same thing wearing a different hoodie. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

• pccardctl — PCMCIA card control utility
• lspcmcia — display extended PCMCIA debugging information

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pccardctl [-V] [-v ...] command [socket]
lspcmcia [-V] [-v ...] [socket]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, pccardctl is the tool you use to monitor and control the state of PCMCIA sockets. it's giving main character energy for your card slots, fr fr.

if you hand it a socket number, the command only gets applied to that one lil socket. no socket number? then all the sockets get the treatment. periodt.

okay so here's the tea 🫖 — if pccardctl is run by root, every single command is available to you. if an unpriviledged user runs it, only the informational commands are accessible. that's the vibe check. no cap.

and lspcmcia? it's just an alias for pccardctl ls, provided for convenience. iconic behavior honestly.

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👑 COMMANDS 👑

• status — Display the current socket status flags. the quick lil vibe check of your socket ✨
• config — Display the socket configuration, including power settings, interrupt and I/O window settings, and configuration registers.

💀 --not yet implemented — yeah bestie, it's still cooking, we don't have it yet

• ident — Display card identification information, including product identification strings, manufacturer ID codes, and function ID codes. Not yet implemented for cardbus cards. Use lspci instead. (like, go ask the other guy 🫶)
• info — Much like the ident command, but its output is formatted as a series of Bourne-stype shell variable definitions for use in scripts. Not yet implemented for cardbus cards.
• ls — Display extended debugging information about the PCMCIA sockets and devices present in the system. this is the one lspcmcia is doing a lil cosplay of 💅
• suspend — Shut down and then disable power for a socket. nap time 😴
• resume — Restore power to a socket, and re-configure for use. wake up babe 🌈
• eject — Notify all client drivers that this card will be ejected, then cut power to the socket. say bye-bye 👋
• insert — Notify all client drivers that this card has just been inserted. hi bestie, welcome back 🎀

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -V — Show version information and exit. short and sweet, we love a clean exit 💖
• -v — Increase the verbosity of the ls command. Giving this option twice increases verbosity further. yes queen, give me more details 🔥

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

• Daniel Ritz - daniel.ritz@gmx.ch
• based upon the original cardctl man page by
• David Hinds - dahinds@users.sourceforge.net

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this lil masterpiece shipped with pcmciautils, dated 2005/10/22 🌸 like, vintage but still serving. now go forth and control those sockets, you absolute legend 👑💅✨