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Re: PCMCIA network card with woody install



On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 06:56:08PM -0700, Shawn Dunn wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:56:18 -0400
> Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 07:12:43PM -0700, Shawn Dunn wrote:
> > > Hey there all, I have an old Panasonic Toughbook here (P133, 16MB
> > > RAM), and a linksys PCMCIA 10bT card, which is listed in
> <snip>
> ok, the card model is a Linksys NP10T, and I got it working by
> configuring it manually (ie manually switching to another VT and using
> ifconfig and route), so now Woody is installed and running (the base

Which kernel is it anyway? 2.4 and above need the hotplug package for
some cards to configure (read pcmcia-cs/FAQ.Debian.gz).

> system and XFree anyway), so I go to reboot it, and BOOM, on startup,
> while configuring the PCMCIA bits, I get a kernel panic (just like I got
> when letting the installer do the configuration itself).  I've been

You didn't mention that earlier. What does it say?

> through modules, /etc/pcmcia, /etc/init.d, and a bunch of other places
> and can't find WHERE woody is picking up it's PCMCIA config or Network
> config for the card, can somebody PLEASE just tell me where to comment
> out, or delete the file that tells the kernel to config card services,
> so I can do em manually until I figger out what's going on?

You could change the line "PCMCIA=yes" to say no in /etc/default/pcmcia.

-- 
Seneca
seneca-cunningham@rogers.com


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