PCMCIA Problems
Hi all,
I have a strange PCMCIA problem. This is a laptop that I originally
installed Slink on about 18 months ago. Upgraded to unstable soon after
and have run unstable since. Sometime last summer I did a fresh install
when the Potato boot floppies became stable. I don't remember the last
time I upgraded packages so it's long enough ago that I doubt the
problem
is a new package.
Anyway, right now my PCMCIA is totally hosed. Cardmgr is failing with
the following messages:
open_sock (socket 0) failed: Permission denied
no sockets found!
The pcmcia_core, i82365, and ds modules are loaded. When I insert my
ethernet card it is recognized (no beep, but it logs the insertion and
removal).
This is the second time this same problem has happened to me in the last
couple weeks. The first time was apparently caused by my installing
lm_sensors. I couldn't get the thing fixed and resorted to reinstalling
from a recent backup. Now this time it appears to have been caused by
installation of a new kernel (not a new version just different compile
options). I am running 2.2.17 and pcmcia 3.1.21.
As before, I ununstalled the stuff I had just installed and it still
doesn't work. Compiled a new kernel with old options, also recompiled
pcmcia, also tried using pcmcia 3.1.8 since I had a copy of that as
well.
The hardware is fine - works in windows, and also I did a quick
first-stage
potato install and it brings up the ethernet card fine in that
situation.
I'm stuck. Any help is greatly appreciated.
-Steve Stancliff
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