I figure I might as well follow up on yesterdays’ post:

• Writing Tech 2 binaries onto a PCMCIA card is as simple as ‘dd’.

All you need to do is load Linux on a machine with a supported PCMCIA cardbus interface, load drivers, and write the image to the drive’s /dev/ entry using ‘dd’.

I used conv=dsync just to be safe- but it worked perfectly, which is more than I can say than how I would feel about shelling out hundreds of dollars to do the same under Windows.

I was able to get data from the Impala (4th digit of VIN is production series, or, ‘W’ in this case), and found that the front passenger speed sensor is not reporting. Time to check the harness and sensor!