Re: Getting PCMCIA to work?

["Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@databasix.com>]

On 2003.02.06 14:16 Marc Mongeon wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:35:40PM -0500, Brian Kendig wrote:
> > I have a Dell Latitude CPi D266XT laptop running Debian sarge, and
> I'd
> > like to get PCMCIA working on it, so I can use my 3Com Ethernet
> card.
> > But it's not working and I can't figure out why.
>
> Inspect your /etc/init.d/pcmcia script.  It may be trying to 'insmod'
> modules instead of 'modprobe'ing them, with the result being that
> dependent modules are not loaded correctly.  I had a similar problem,
> and fixed it by modifying the script to 'modprobe' the pcmcia modules.

Another is to make sure that /etc/default/pcmcia has 
PCIC="yenta_socket" rather than PCIC="i82365" since the 2.4 kernels 
don't have that module.

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