RE: pcmcia driver problem
I ran into the exact same problem. Here's the solution I found:
1. Make sure you install *both* the pcmcia-cs and the pcmcia-modules of the
same version and of the same version as your kernel (Note if you are installing
these via a pcmcia card connection, copy them locally to your harddrive first,
as installation requires shutting down the pcmcia subsystem !).
BUG: when installing the version 3.0.4 of pcmcia, the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts
file gets overwritten with a blank entry, and no conversion from the previous
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts is run. Luckily, the old, correct file is saved in
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts.dpkg-old. I *think* you can get away with overwriting
the network.opts file with the old one. To be safe, edit the newer network.opts
file, filling in the same entries from the network.opts.dpkg-old (the formats
are very similar).
Here's another, more subtle BUG:
If you compiled your own version of the stable kernel (say 2.0.34) via kpkg,
dpkg consistently wants to re-install the oribinal 2.0.34 binaries if you
install the newer 3.0.4 pcmcia stuff. I have to override this stuff, when dpkg
should be smart enough to know that a 2.0.34 based kernel is still being used.
On 02-Sep-98 Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Hi,
> I have succesfully installed a Debian2.0 from a CD on a laptop Toshiba
> Satellite 310CDS. Then I upgraded the pcmcia*.deb file the the 4th version
> (from slink) and installed the package.
> Now I have a problem related to pcmcia ethernet adaptor. The error I get
> is:
>
> hsogso:/etc/init.d# ifconfig eth0 10.1.10.240 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast
> 10.1.255.255
> SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device
> eth0: unknown interface.
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: Operation not supported by device
> SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not supported by device
> eth0: unknown interface.
> hsogso:/etc/init.d#
>
> What can I do? Do I have to add some data to my question?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Giuseppe
>
>
>
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E-Mail: Geoffrey L. Brimhall <brimhall@pobox.com>
Date: 03-Sep-98
Time: 21:13:38
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