Re: pcmcia ethernet cards
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 11:50:00AM -0500, John_J_Neff@colad.com wrote:
> I have a toshiba satellite 400CDT that I use an IBM PCMICA ethercard in.
> It was working in kernel 2.0.36. I upgraded to potato and it still worked.
> I then downloaded and reconfigured 2.2.13 kernel and the ethernet card
> stopped working. Can someone tell me if they have any specific troubles
> with ths card, laptop, kernel combination?
Of course you have read /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz
which says:
There some add on modules that hook into make-kpkg and the kernel
sources so that they may be kept in synchrony woth the kernel you
run. If you have such a module source package, for example,
pcmcia-source, then please read README.modules as well. If you don't
never mind. (The file is in /usr/share/doc/kernel-source-X.X.XX/. If you
don't have kernsel-source packages installed [that's OK]. there is a
copy in /usr/share/kernel-package/README.modules).
and /usr/share/kernel-package/README.modules says:
Most of these modules need to be compiled for each kernel
version; they are very dependent on kernel structures. It was
suggested that it would be nice to be able to build the add-on
modules whenever one created a new kernel, and kernel-package
provides some mechanisms to do so for co-operating add-on modules.
In order for this to work, the add on modules must appear in
a standard location, choosen to be $(MODULE_LOC)/<mod-name>/
(MODULE_LOC defaults to /usr/src/modules, and can be set either on in
the environment or the configuration file), and must arrange to be
manipulated by the kernel-package mechanisms.
??
:-)
>
> I am getting some module (depmod) errors on bootup so I will be attacking
> those. I would hate to be fighting a losing battle though, so if you've
> discovered it does or does not work, the advice would be appreciated.
regards,
Marcin
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Marcin Owsiany
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