Jim Wintermyre wrote:
> Just starting on driver changes for ExpressCard, and ran across this:
>
> At 5:55 PM -0800 12/18/06, Rick Sulack wrote:
>> On Dec 18, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Brett George wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How does OS X identify the vendor's name from the Vendor ID in an
>>> expresscard? We have an express card in a macBook Pro and although the
>>> icon in the title bar (top RH corner) appears, the menu selection
>>> reports "unknown vendor". How can we specify the details of this vendor?
>>> Is this something we can do in the driver?
>>
>> Take a look at the file:
>>
>>
>> /Developer/Examples/Kernel/IOKit/pccard/ApplePCCardSample/ApplePCCardSample.cpp
>>
>>
>> and search for "CHANGE_VERSION_ONE". The strings should be UTF-8.
>>
>> -rick
>
> Interesting, that does appear to work. That's gotta qualify as, shall
> we say, one of the more "underdocumented" features I've run across
> lately! :)
>
> Is there any way to hook into that menu beyond just changing those two
> items? Can we add additional items? Also, what exactly does the "Power
> off card" menu item do?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
Yes, and bear in mind it only works if you have installed the driver and
rebooted. Loading the driver manually from the command line doesn't set
that information.
Brett.
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