Re: 3com network card, trouble w pcmcia-modules
I'll try to address what I think is the fundamental problem: your PCMCIA
modules are not installed.
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:29:52PM -0800, David Emerson wrote:
> I'll start with what appears (to my ignr'nt eyes) to be the problem:
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.20/pcmcia/ does not exist.
>
> /etc/pcmcia/ exists but only contains one empty file, "cis"
> /etc/pcmcia.conf does not exist either.
>
> This is probably because the pcmcia-modules package was not installed properly (see below)
I think you're right about that. See below.
> (( (And can someone explain to me why the above command works, but I can't run pcmcia from the init.d directory?)
> lakshmi:/etc/init.d# pcmcia restart
> bash: pcmcia: command not found
> ))
The "current directory" (.) is not in your command path (nor should it be,
as this is considered a security risk). Use "./pcmcia restart".
> # apt-get install pcmcia-modules
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package pcmcia-modules has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> of sources.list
> E: Package pcmcia-modules has no installation candidate
> #
The package you want to install is "pcmcia-modules-2.2.xx" where "xx"
matches the revision of your installed kernel. Unfortunately, "dpkg --list"
truncates package names (a real pain, in my opinion), so it's difficult to
determine the exact name of the package to pass to "apt-get". For that
reason, I usually use "dselect" to find and install problematic packages
like that.
Hmmm... I thought I'd read something in your original post that lead me to
believe you were running a 2.2 kernel... I'm not sure it that's the case;
anyway, if you're running a 2.4 kernel, the package name will be "kernel-
pcmcia-2.4.xx".
>
> # apt-get install pcmcia-cs
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, pcmcia-cs is already the newest version.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> #
>
Looks like this is installed fine.
Marc
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