Bug#58266: bf-2.2.7: PCMCIA network install is broken
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 06:53:42AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> At 16:55 -0600 2/16/00, <ccheney@cheney.cx> wrote:
> >Package: boot-floppies
> >I tried to install potato using bf-2.2.7 today and I could not get pcmcia
> >[snip]
> >something about no network card being found (sorry I don't have the exact
> >message). I went to the second console and did an ifconfig and there was
> >no [snip]
> >This gave more error messages (sorry I don't remember the exact errors) one of
> >them was about start-stop-daemon. If needed I can try again and get the exact
> >error messages.
>
> Please try it again and report the exact error messages
The error is that the modules are not there from my experience ...
> You are allowed to use classic tools such as paper and pencil
I sent an email concerning the exact same problem - It failed to
load the xirc_ps.o module because it was not available in /lib/modules/
Doing an symlink on the second console from /lib/modules to
/target/lib/modules - Doing depmod -a - and retry worked for
me ...
Flo
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