PCMCIA Ethernet failure under 2.4.9
After trying to upgrade to woody from potato, I found that my pcmcia
ethernet card would not work under kernel 2.4.9-AMD-K6.
With 2.2.18, the hardware was pcmcia i82365, ethernet card NE2000
(module ne) with io and irq set by hand.
I looked through the list archives, and found that under 2.4.x kernels,
the pcmcia driver is supposed to now be yenta_socket, and the ethernet
card as pcnet_cs. Both modules load fine, and the LED's show link
active, but eth0 will not activate.
At this point I decided to eliminate any conflict problems, downloaded
the latest woody cd, reformatted and installed with no legacy software,
and repeated the above with no success.
"linuxconf" and "netconf" create the /etc/conf.modules file in it, which
the kernel ignores and uses /etc/modules.conf They also do not recognize
pcnet_cs as a valid network interface module.
I added "alias eth0 pcnet_cs" to the modules.conf by hand in the
modutils directory first. The port still does not activate. I put an
entry in /etc/network/interfaces for both the loopback and eth0
interfaces. I was a little bit surprised that no loopback interface had
been defined.
This is all I can get out of it: Please forgive any typo's, I have also
been completely unsuccessful in trying to get copy and paste working in
the KDE workspace. Every step forward for me seems to break two other
things. I had to type the below by hand.
# ifup eth0
ifup: interface eth0 already configured
# ifdown eth0
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
# ifup eth0
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
If anyone can say "use this and this driver", I would be very grateful.
Unfortunately, the only instructions I've been able to find, which I
have tried, have failed.
Curt-
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September 11th, 2001
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