RE: Problems with pcmcia on potato (on Dell Latitude)
Drew:
I know I've seen you on here before, so I'll assume you have some good idea
what you're doing.
You should be able to get the card workign during the drivers config/just
after the drivers install. The important thing at this point is to make sure
you've applied the PCMCIA support (which come in as a separate set of
drivers from the other drivers) BEFORE you apply any other drivers.
I've installed Debian-potato on ~6 laptops, all with different cards (no
Xircom cards, though) and been able to do a net install.
Though you might check to see if there's an i/o conflict or something
between the modem and the ethernet driver (I've had problems with this in
'doze).
The /target/lib/modules/2.2.13 looks like it (may) be part of the pcmcia bug
in potato that I've noticed. I've seen that potato installs pcmcia support
and then fails to remove it even when you've asked it to.
Did you install from a cd image? How did you install the base system?
I'd try reinstalling, do it carefully, and make sure you download the
pcmcia-modules-source and the kernel-source (the same version) just in case
you need to recompile.
The other thing that it *could* be is that the card is crapped. If neither
RH nor Debian can find it, maybe the card (or the pcmcia slot(s)) themselves
are physical-layer busted. Do you get a link light?
Hope this helps, in any case.
Regards,
Glen
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric House [mailto:fixin@peak.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 8:08 PM
To: Drew Parsons
Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org; recipient list not shown: ;
Subject: Re: Problems with pcmcia on potato (on Dell Latitude)
First, a bit more information. The error message I'm getting from the
installer is that it can't find /lib/modules/2.2.13. And sure enough,
if I fire up a second VC and look there's no directory by that name.
There *is* a /target/lib/modules/2.2.13, and I managed to make a bit
more progress by creating a symlink for the missing directory. But
the fact that the installer is looking for files that don't exist
suggests that something pretty basic is wrong.
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 04:21:03PM -0800, Eric House wrote:
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1) What went wrong with configuring pcmcia support in the install?
> >
> > 2) What do I do to get the socket driver installed? I don't remember
> > any install options having to do with sockets.
> >
>
> The problem, as far as I can see, is that your pcmcia modules are
mismatched
> to your kernel. Have you compiled your own kernel? In that case it is
> mandatory that you also compile your own pcmcia-modules package.
I downloaded everything from the frozen directory on debian.org (or some
mirror.) I can't compile my own kernel or anything else until I get gcc
installed, and I can't do that without an ethernet link.
> An easier way might be to just download the standard debian kernel-image
and
> pcmcia-modules (and pcmcia-cs), for both slink and potato to be on the
safe
> side, install them by hand (the slink version, presumeably), and then
> `apt-get dist-upgrade` from slink should do the rest to land you in
potato.
My stupid pcmcia card isn't supported under slink. I've tried that route.
(Tried buying a new card this evening but the local places are all out.)
> By the way, I have a Xircom RealPort 16bit modem/ethernet card, and it was
> working fine under slink. Have you a cardbus card? It would imagine it
> should still work under slink, just sounds like your pcmcia modules are
> mixed up.
I spent a day trying to upgrade from slink, but without a working card
it wasn't possible. Not sure what my Xircom card is -- not Realport,
anyway -- but it's listed as requiring newer pcmcia-cs than works with
slink. Backporting it is beyond my Linux skills, and trying to move
just those packages required from potato onto my slink system quickly got
out of hand.
(I tried installing RedHat 6.1 this evening thinking it'd be easier, but
it happily installed 30,000 cute images without ever asking my IP address,
and if there's a way to configure the network after the fact I couldn't
find it for all the menu items for changing themes. Yuck!)
I'm in my first week at a new job, and will probably be allowed one
more day of trying to get Linux up before they'll tell me to just make
do with 'Dows. If anyone has any clue what I'm doing wrong here, please
speak up. I'm assuming all the posts claiming success with potato on
laptops are for real....
Thanks!
--Eric House
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