Re: Cirrus Logic pd6729 & 2.6 kernel

[Clayton <lists@ckintl.biz>]

Hi John,

Thanks for the reply.... when did you post to debian.laptops? I read it quite religiously and didn't see your post....

After my original post I did some additional trolling around the linux-pcmcia list archives and came away with the distinct impression (perhaps incorrect) that 2.6.8 did not contain full support for the pd6729 and that there were some patches trying to find there way in. So, I went back to my old Knoppix kernel and coaxed it into giving me a network connection long enough to download the latest Sarge 2.4.x and am now running fine with that. Took me a quite a while to wring out all the issues that followed from trying to eradicate Knoppix, though. I won't lightly install from Knoppix again.

Since this is a Pentium One I am not currently planning on rolling any home-made kernels, so if that is what it takes I will probably just stick with 2.4 for now on this machine and try my luck with 2.6 on my Pentium III. If you do find the solution, let me know though, I might run with it..... :-)

Thanks for the PLIP information, I might set that up just for the heck of it, also since I am going to try and set up this Pentium One as a router it might free up one of my PCMCIA slots. (I have been looking for PCMCIA cards with multiple ethernet ports, and they seem not to exist.)

Thanks again,
Clayton

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:35:57 -0600
John Heim <jheim@wisc.edu> wrote:

> Did you ever get your problem with the pd6729 fixed?
> 
> I am currently struggling with the same problem. I posted a reply to your 
> message in debian.laptops newsgroup but I was thinking you might not see 
> it. So heads up.
> 
> Anyway, I think I know the solution to your problem... I think you have to 
> recompile the kernel and include a driver for the pd6729. I have 
> been  working on doing that for a few days now w/o success. But I think 
> that's because I don't know what I'm doing not because the solution itself 
> is wrong. I actually exchanged email with the author of the linux pcmcia 
> subsystem, David Hinds.
> 
> Another tip I have is that you should try copying the kernel to your laptop 
> via plip. All you need is an old Laptop parallel cable. If you can find 
> somebody who used to own a copy of Laplink, they may still have the cables. 
> Maybe somebody in your local linux users goup would have one. After that, 
> it's easy to set up. Just read the plip howto.  Then you can transfer files 
> to your laptop at near network speeds.
> 
> Before I got my hands on a Laplink parallel cable, I used a null-modem 
> serial cable and ppp to transfer files to my laptop. That took me days to 
> configure though. Plip is way easier to configure. But a null-modem cable 
> is easy to find.  You can buy a null-modem adapter at Radio Shack for about 
> $5.  Or you can use the blue cable from a laplink package. But if you find 
> a set of Laplink cables, use the yello, parallel one and plip instead.



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John G. Heim