On Sat, 02 Aug 2003, cls-du@truffula.sj.ca.us wrote:
> I wrote:
> >> # cardctl ident
> >> Socket 1:
> >> product info: "CardBus", "Fast Ethernet", "V1.0", ""
> >> manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02
> >> function: 6 (network)
>
> Jesse Meyer wrote:
> >[I've got the same card,] FCC ID of "MQ4C2K5MX"
> > [...] under the 2.4 debian kernel, I have
> > got the card to work, but only using the 2.4 boot floppy kernel and the
> > package pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-bf2.4. The driver seems to be 'tulip_cb',
> > the regular 'tulip' driver in the kernel does not seem to work.
>
> I poked around some more. I never did get the hang of building
> "Debianized" kernels; I've always used the upstream kernel source.
> When I installed the current upstream pcmcia-cs, and Debian's hotplug
> package, the tulip.o in my /lib/modules/2.4.21 started working!
>
> For the record, it seems there are two ways to support PCMCIA cards.
> You have to choose the kernel's internal drivers -or- the ones
> that come with Dennis Hinds' pcmcia-cs.
> Debian uses pcmcia-cs, but packages the driver modules separately
> as pcmcia-drivers.
> Jesse reports tulip_cb from there works, and I can now report
> success with the tulip and mii modules from the 2.4.21 kernel.
Did your card have the same FCC number? Also, what sort of laptop is
it?
I think I'll try hotplug in a bit then, I'm sick of bf kernels. :)
~ Jesse Meyer
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