Re: PCMCIA nightmare - help!
On 27 Jul, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In a wild fit of Debian advocacy, I persuaded a colleague at work to
> partition the hard disk on his portable and install Debian.
>
> Installation was a breeze...it put the PCMCIA stuff in and booted nicely
> with beeps and so on. But it had lost all the IP info and ifconfig eth0 got
Two high beeps, or a high followed by a low? In case you don't know,
the former is good, the latter means no go with your card.
> no such device errors.
>
> This is a real embarrassment. I have modprobed made sure the xirc2ps_cs
You shouldn't be embarrassed -- unless of course you claimed that
Debian would automatically detect and work with all his hardware. :-)
Let him know that the reason Windows is so easy to install is that it's
always *pre*-installed -- Windows intallation can be much more of a
headache than Linux, believe me.
> module is loaded but no joy...I cannot configure a network. No such device
> type messages. Interface not recognised.
>
> Is there some obvious mistake I've made? For example, is the PCMCIA card
> called eth0? Or is there somewhere to find error messages?
To find out whether the card is eth0 (and which driver it's using), cat
/var/run/stab. For error messages, check /var/log/kern.log and
/var/log/daemon.log.
If there's an entry in /var/run/stab (as an ethX), then ifconfig -a
should show it. (If you can get that far, then you *should* be able to
set it up as any other ethernet device, of course.)
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