Problems with the network and pcmcia-modules
Hi everybody
I've upgraded my toshiba 4080XCDT laptop (with a 3c589 pcmcia card)
from slink to potato.
The upgrade process has changed and partially spoiled
the network setup since now i'm not able to connect
to hosts lying within my network, but only to machines outside
my zone. I haven't tried all the possible IPs, but apparently
the machine is not able to connect to the machines in
the zone 160.78.*.*. This is strange because ther's no reference
in the routing data to a network with a 16 bits address range.
(As a matter of fact my local network is 8 bits wide)
I've removed the reference to /etc/init.d/network from /etc/rcS.d/
and configured the file /etc/network/interfaces with
the option 'noauto' for eth0. As an attempt to remove any
possible cause of troubles i've removed any reference to the interface
ppp0, but with no success.
The installation of kernel-image-2.2.14 and its related package
pcmcia-modules-2.2.14 produced even more troubles. The ethernet
card is recognized by the cardmgr, but as soon as it loads the
driver's module into the memory....
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: socket 1: 3Com Megahertz 589E TP/BNC LAN PC Card
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o'
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol unregister_netdev_Racfc3c24
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol __kfree_skb_Rc5fdeebf
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol alloc_skb_R2baeae23
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol eth_type_trans_R0b43975d
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol register_netdev_R96cb8321
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol skb_over_panic_Rf7c92034
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol ether_setup_R43debb67
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_Rf4daa2a7
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: insmod exited with status 1
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: executing: 'modprobe 3c589_cs'
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol unregister_netdev_Racfc3c24
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol __kfree_skb_Rc5fdeebf
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol alloc_skb_R2baeae23
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol eth_type_trans_R0b43975d
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol register_netdev_R96cb8321
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol skb_over_panic_Rf7c92034
Mar 29 18:21:21 ravel cardmgr[477]: + /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol ether_setup_R43debb67
in /etc/modutils/pcmcia the path has been changed accordingly to the
direction given during the upgrade. I've noticed that these symbols
are unresolved for many ethernet cards whose modules are shipped in
pcmcia-modules-2.2.14 but since I've found no bugs filed
against this package i presume i'm missing something.
Any help is welcome. Thank you.
-- Massimo
Massimo Manghi / Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva e Funzionale
Parco Area delle Scienze 11A | email: manghi@biol.unipr.it
43100 Parma (Italia) | manghi@prfs02.biol.unipr.it
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