Re: PCMCIA Problems win IBM A20p

[heinold@physik.tu-cottbus.de (H.Heinold)]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:28:49PM +0200, Frank Petzold wrote:
> I cannot start the PCMCIA subsystem on my A20p:
> 
> root@sten:~# /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
> Shutting down PCMCIA services:.
> Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already exists
> /lib/modules/2.4.8-xfs/pcmcia/i82365.o: init_module: No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.4.8-xfs/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Operation not permitted
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
>  cardmgr.
> 
> 
> The odd thing is that probe finds:
> 
> root@sten:~# probe -v
> PCI bridge probe: TI 1450 found, 2 sockets.
> 
> 
> Cards work under Win98. Any ideas?


Is your kernel selfcompiled or the one from debian? In both case you
must install the pcmcia-modules. In the last ase you have to compile
the pcmcia-modules your self the following:

apt-get install pcmcia-source
cd /usr/src
tar zxvf pcmcia.tgz
cd modules
cd pcmcia-versionnumber

read the installations-tips
-- 


Henning Heinold