Re: Kernel 5.15 Amiga PCMCIA apne driver not working

[Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>]

Carlos,


Am 09.12.2021 um 01:40 schrieb Carlos Milán Figueredo:
> Hi again everyone,
>
> While I figure out how to build a snapshot NETINST ISO, I decided to
> give a try to the "nativehd" initrd. This is a interesting one, as it
> brings up network on the very first stage of the d-i and download
> installer components from the network. I wonder why is called
> "nativehd" and not "netinstall" or something like that.
>
> Anyway, on this initrd, the image is also broken because is missing
> the Amiga (and Atari) network drivers [1], provided by
> "nic-modules-${kernel:Version}", so I added that line to the cfg file
> and built a new initrd. After booting the image on the real hardware,
> d-i goes directly to network setup, but is not able to detect my
> NE2000 PCMCIA cards [2]. If I manually select "apne" the kernel says
> it has not found any PCMCIA card.
>
> I have tested it with the following cards:
>
> D-Link DE660+ 10 MBit Fiberline FL-4680 10 MBit
>
> Both of them working fine on AmigaOS cnet.device and NetBSD/amiga
> 9.2; reported as compatible on [3]. I don't think the driver is
> broken in current kernels as I am experiencing the very same on
> Debian Sarge install with kernel 2.4. Maybe something is wrong with
> my setup? Any ideas?

I know d-i is doing its level best to hide kernel log output from the 
user, but is there a way to look at the kernel log from the installer at 
all? I seem to recall log output was displayed on one of the virtual 
terminal screens.

Without seeing the kernel log messages from the module load attempt, 
it's impossible to tell what went wrong.

Look for a line containing "Looking for PCMCIA ethernet card : " in the 
kernel log messages.

The DE660+ is listed as 'should be supported' on the Amiga PCMCIA 
ethernet page you gave. The FL-4680 is listed as working in 2.4 so I 
wonder if something in the multiplatform ISA support breaks these cards.

Try building your installer kernel without support for Atari and Q40.

Cheers,

	Michael

> [1]
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/blob/master/build/pkg-lists/nativehd/m68k.cfg
[2] https://i.postimg.cc/PrDbCThX/IMG-20211208-051843.jpg
> [3] http://www.g-mb.de/pcmcia_e.html
>
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