PCMCIA configuration under 2.4.x
Hi Debian laptop users
Sorry to bother you with what I am sure will turn out to be a stupid mistake
on my part, but I have been unable to find any help in either the Debian
bug database or on the web.
I installed Debian just over 2 years ago on my laptop (a Dell Inspiron), and
with a little effort got everything working. I have managed to configure
the PCMCIA network.opt script so that when I plug in my 3c575 network card
it re-configures the system for scheme (I use a number) and I can now access
the Web/Email/etc from which ever site I connect to.
My problem started when I switched to the new 2.4.x kernels. I had already
read that the 3c575 card is now supported by the 3c59x kernel module. So I
built that part of the kernel as a module, and place the following lines in
the /etc/pcmcia/config.opt file:
device "3c59x"
class "network" module "3c59x"
card "3Com 3c575-TX Fast EtherLink XL"
manfid 0x0101, 0x5057
bind "3c59x"
module "3c59x" opts "debug=3 rx_copybreak=300"
This works well up to a point. When I insert the drive it loads the 3c59x
kernel module, and when I pull the card it takes it down okay. The problem
seams to be that `cardmgr' is calling the network script with `3c59x' rather
than `eth0' (which is what I found it did under 2.2.x). I have extracted
the appropriate bit from my log files.
cardmgr[212]: initializing socket 0
cardmgr[212]: socket 0: 3Com 3c575-TX Fast EtherLink XL
cardmgr[212]: executing: 'modprobe 3c59x debug=3 rx_copybreak=300'
cardmgr[212]: executing: './network start 3c59x'
cardmgr[212]: + 3c59x: error fetching interface information: Device not found
cardmgr[212]: + 3c59x: unknown interface: No such device
cardmgr[212]: + SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
cardmgr[212]: + 3c59x: unknown interface: No such device
cardmgr[212]: + SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
cardmgr[212]: + SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
cardmgr[212]: + 3c59x: unknown interface: No such device
cardmgr[212]: + SIOCADDRT: No such device
cardmgr[212]: + SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
Reading /etc/pcmcia/network I see that the second argument should be the
network interface name not the device name. Why is cardmgr passing `3c59x'
to this script rather than `eth0'? What have I missed? If this is just an
RTFM or STFW please point me at the appropriate URL.
I know that this is the correct diver and that it works because I can configure
the network by hand. I would like the PCMCIA subsystem to do it automatically.
Thanks loads for any help you can give
Steve
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