RE: Problems with pcmcia on potato (on Dell Latitude)
Phew. Sounds crazy.
Try rsync to move the .o modules, using rsync -avz, which will preserve
permissions and all that.
I assume you have checked to make sure that the xircom card is supported, by
model #, on linuxdoc.org? You don't have the model# here, or I'd go check it
for you.
I wonder if it's the card, but it looks as though it's something else. Did
you look in /target/var/log for error msgs? They are, I'm pretty sure,
written in there. If not there, they'd be in /var/log on the ramdisk (get to
with ALT-F2) during the net install. That's where I'd look.
Hope some of this helps. Can you trade cards ;>
I'd suggest doing the fresh install with potato, anyway: the perl and kernel
upgrade makes it kind of annoying if you're doing slink dist-upgrade (IMHO)
Regards,
Glen
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric House [mailto:fixin@peak.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 11:30 AM
To: Glen S Mehn
Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org; recipient list not shown: ;
Subject: RE: Problems with pcmcia on potato (on Dell Latitude)
> I know I've seen you on here before, so I'll assume you have some good
idea
> what you're doing.
Actually, it's my problem. I hope the assumption still holds. :-)
> 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.
Done.
> I've installed Debian-potato on ~6 laptops, all with different cards (no
> Xircom cards, though) and been able to do a net install.
I've done a net install with the same laptop and a different card. And this
xircom card works fine under 'Dows. I don't think it's a hardware problem.
> 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).
I'll pull the modem out and try again. Just in case. But the error's
coming up before there's any attempt to use the cards: the installer
can't find the drivers (the .o module files) because they're not where
they belong.
Question: is there any way to get a look at the error text that's written
to the console used by the installer (Alt-F1). It's only visible for a
second, and I bet there's a bunch more text that might help diagnose this.
I've checked the other consoles: not there.
> 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.
It's failing to copy the files to /lib/modules. I don't get to the point
where it asks me if I want to remove it.
> Did you install from a cd image? How did you install the base system?
I copied the rescue, root, and driver1-3 .bin files to the laptop
running 'Dows and made floppies using rawrite2. I copied base2_2.tgz
to the laptop's 'Dows partition. I then booted off of the rescue disk
and followed instructions. The error happens before the base2_2.tgz
becomes an issue.
Exactly the same technique worked for installing slink with a borrowed
3com card. But I wonder if it'd work for potato even with that card,
since we're not getting to the point where pcmcia-cs is even running.
It's the install that's failing.
> 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.
I'm going to try after removing the modem card, and I'm going to
manually copy all the module binaries from /target/lib/modules/2.2.13
to /lib/modules/2.2.13 if the installer doesn't do it.
> 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?
Works fine running 'Dows.
Thanks,
--Eric House
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