Re: Xircom CardBus and Kernel 2.4
On Sunday 12 May 2002 21:47, you wrote:
> Marc.Duerner@student.shu.ac.uk writes:
> > On Sunday 12 May 2002 02:33, you wrote:
> > > I'm a Debian newbie who just installed Potato on my laptop, a Dell
> > > Inspiron 7500. I have a Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56 PCI
> > > card. This card worked fine when I was using Red Hat 7.1 (kernel
> > > 2.4.x) and also worked OK with the default 2.2 kernel that comes with
> > > Potato. I upgraded the distribution, then, finally upgraded to kernel
> > > 2.4.18. Now I can't get the card to work.
> > >
> > > Judging from the messages during boot, I'd say the new kernel isn't
> > > recognizing my i82365 controller. modconf confrims that this module
> > > is not loaded and when I attempt to insert it, the installation fails.
> >
> > This is a well known problem. I also have a i82365 controller, but the
> > i82365 kernel module doesn't work. The solution is to use the
> > undocumented yenta_socket. Goto your /etc/default/pcmcia and set:
> >
> > PCIC=yenta_socket
> >
> > leave the rest as it is. Now restart your card services with
> >
> > /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
> >
> > and tell us what happens.
>
> Well, its partly fixed. The yenta socket module loads and the card is
> recognized as a Xircom card. Unfortunately, the card doesn't work,
> now. That is, the ethernet connection is never established and I
> can't ping any other machines. I actually tried rebooting just to
> make sure I'm reinitializing everything but got the same result.
>
> I noticed during the boot that there's an error when the xircom_cb
> module loads now. I can't seem to find the error message in any of
> the log files or I'd post it. I notcied that the xircom module tries
> to load before the yenta module and thought this might be the problem
> but modconf shows the module as being loaded and reloading it and
> trying /etc/pcmcia/network stop/start doesn't help.
How did you setup your ethernet card? Have you edited
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts or /etc/network/interfaces? Can you ping your own IP?
The yenta_socket should get loaded before the other modules. Try to find out
about that error message. When you boot to the console login, you can scroll
upwards with Shift+PageUp. Or try /var/log/kern.log Try to attach the part
about the pcmcia modules to your mext email.
Marc
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