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Re: 3c575cb/3c59x load on boot



What's in /etc/network/interfaces ?
What's in /etc/modules ?
What's the output of dmesg?

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, D Lachlan wrote:

> 2.4.24-1 on Debian 3.0 unstable (installed from 2.2r3, apt to 3.0
> stable, apt to 3.0 unstable)
> 3CCFE575BT-D pcmcia, Dell Latitude CPiD
>
> This was originally working on an old RH (7.0 or 7.2), but Debian 3.0
> stable (2.2.19pre17) gave "Tx Ring full" errors. I upgraded to unstable
> and 2.4.24-1, and it works but I cannot get it to load on boot. Boot
> with the old kernel and it loads on boot but still get ring full errors.
>
> Currently, the system boots, /etc/init.d/pcmcia loads yenta_socket (it
> was loading i82365), but my pcmcia card is not loaded and my network is
> pooched. I have to manually 'insmod 3c59x', then 'ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1'
> before 'pump -i eth0' [0]. So it works, but not like it's supposed to.
>
> I cannot seem to force my system to recognize my cardbus as i82365, and
> it doesn't see my pcmcia card automatically off yenta_socket. I've
> checked both the laptop and pcmcia howto's, but they didn't seem to
> apply. I'm looking for either an answer or a direction--I'm kind of hit
> or miss at this point because I can't seem to track down why it's
> failing. Am I better reverting to an older kernel? I'd prefer to stay
> somewhere on 2.4.xx, if for no reason other than the newer 3c59x driver.
>
> -d
>
> [0] I was getting "failed to connect to localhost:bootpc: Operation now
> in progress" because lo wasn't configured.
>
>
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