Re: can't detect NIC
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:52:52PM -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> > > Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> > > > I'm tyring to install the i386 disks from 'testing' on a Toshiba 1805-S
203,
> > > > to which I've added a Linksys "Combo" ethernet card.
John H. Robinson wrote:
> this is what i did, since i knew that the 3.1.22 modules worked for my
> PCMCIA NIC:
>
> installed kernel-source-2.2.19and pcmcia-source into a woody chroot.
> unpacked them both
> i took the /boot/config-2.2.19-reiserfs, copied it into
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19/.config, cd'd into
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19, applies the reiserfs patch (you can skip
> that part), and did a make-kpkg modules
>
> i then installed that .deb, took the /lib/modules/2.2.19/pcmcia
> directory and tar'd it up, and cp'd the tarbal onto an MSDOS formatted
> floppy.
>
Thanks for the info. I tried it, got a bunch of unresolved symbol errors,
then recompiled the kernel which I'd used to build the pcmcia tarball,
replaced the kernel on the floppies, tried again, and still didn't detect
the card.
I notice that in the 3.1.29 version of the pcmcia card services
(not yet packaged for Debian), the CHANGES file says:
"Fixed some axnet_cs/pcnet_cs config file conflicts"
Perhaps this will fix the problem.
I then gave up and installed potato on the machine, and that worked fine,
until of course, I upgraded to the latest version of pcmcia_cs (3.1.28) which
gives me the same errors I'd gotten with the woody boot-floppies.
It looks like this problem is related to pcmcia-cs and not to the boot-floppies
work at all.
Thanks again for your speedy response.
Susan
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