Re: pcmcia help?

[Andreas Goesele <Goesele@hfph.mwn.de>]

"Bruce Best (CRO)" <bestb@lao.on.ca> writes:

> In addition to the pcmcia modules, you need the modules specific to your
> network card. A google for "FEther PCC-TXF linux" turns up
> http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS, and the right module
> for this card appears to be "pcnet_cs". 
> 
> Try 
> 
> # modprobe pcnet_cs
> 
> then
> 
> # ifconfig eth0 up

Thanks. I tried it, but:

$ ifconfig eth0 up

eth0: unknown interface: No such device

:-(

lsmode shows:

Module                  Size  Used by
pcnet_cs               10340   0  (unused)
8390                    5916   0  [pcnet_cs]
ds                      6028   2  [pcnet_cs]
i82365                 21072   2 
pcmcia_core            42384   0  [pcnet_cs ds i82365]
nls_cp437               3872   4  (autoclean)
slip                    7232   0  (unused)
ppp                    20296   0  (unused)
slhc                    4368   0  [slip ppp]
binfmt_misc             3800   0 
binfmt_aout             3936   0 
autofs                  9140   0  (unused)
smbfs                  24928   0  (unused)
vfat                    9404   2 
unix                   11332  97  (autoclean)

Thanks again!

Andreas Goesele

> The interface should now show up with an ifconfig, and you should have an ip
> address (assuming you are getting your IP address from a dhcp server).
 
> To make the module load automatically on boot, I would recommend that you
> use modconf (apt-get install modconf, if you don't already have it). Modconf
> is very useful in that it automatically makes the necessary configuration
> changes to allow you to add or remove which modules should be loaded at boot
> (though you may need to unload and reload the module in modconf to make sure
> it changes the relevant settings).
> 
> B.