Bug#342164: Sarge Installer Bug Report: Kernel Module Fails To Load
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:49:46AM -0800, O. Sharp wrote:
> > I've downloaded and tried it, and unfortunately it doesn't solve the
> > problem. The 'modprobe -v i82365' failure showed up again early on, and
> > then reappeared whenever an attempt to access network hardware was made.
>
> Any chance your laptop does NOT have an i82365 pcmcia controller? Maybe
> it is yenta or one of the other options instead.
Well, if so the installer is as ignorant of it as I am. :) lspci reports
the PCMCIA bridge as a Cirrus Logic CL 6729 (rev ee). I haven't found
any definitive list of which driver is used for which types of
controllers, but I did come across a Red Hat posting saying the CL 6729
was driven by i82365 and not yentl:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34301#c5
Does this seem correct for Debian as well?
That poster also offers a solution for their situation which (if I'm
reading it right) suggests making some changes in /etc/pcmcia.conf, but
since the installer didn't _create_ any /etc/pcmcia.conf here it doesn't
help me much, whether it's correct for my hardware or not. :)
> Anything in lspci that might give a clue?
Here's the PCMCIA-oriented stuff from lspci -v:
0000:00:0d.0 PCMCIA bridge: Cirrus Logic CL 6729 (rev ee)
Flags: stepping, slow level
I/O ports at fcfc [disabled] [size=4]
...And here's something: I found a posting about CL 6729 drivers on a
Debian help list which looks pretty relevant, evidently a quote from the
author of the i82365 module:
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/01/msg00066.html)
"
This is sort of a historical accident. Prior to 2.4 kernels, there
were only the pcmcia-cs driver modules. With 2.4, PCMCIA drivers
became part of the kernel tree but they were not 100% the same as the
pcmcia-cs drivers. One of the differences was that the CL 6729 bridge
was not supported by the kernel drivers. There is a CL 6729 driver
for the current 2.6 kernels but I think it is recent enough that it
probably is not in most current Linux distributions.
It is possible to use the pcmcia-cs drivers with 2.4 (but not 2.6)
kernels. You would need to remove the kernel PCMCIA driver modules,
and then compile the pcmcia-cs package.
"
Soooo... would I be right in guessing the updated CL 6729 drivers haven't
yet made it into the Debian installs I've tried (sarge and etch beta-1)?
If so, can you suggest an alternative?
...So far I'm enjoying learning Linux, but I didn't realize what the
learning-curve was going to be like. :) :) Thanks!
-O.-
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