Re: can't get off the ground
Thanks Jan. I am grateful for your help. My problem
is, however, that I'm trying to install. I have to
have the card working before I can even install
Debian. Oh me. Such troubles. I'm not sure how to get
the pcmcia module loaded for the installation.
I am truly amazed at how helpful this list is! In some
groups there is such an "elitist" mentality. As far as
I have read, Debian users are truly a community. That
is just awesome. Ok, I'll shut up. Thanks again.
Jason Housewright
--- Neo <netman1@home.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:34, Jason Housewright
> wrote:
> > I am in dire need of help...again. I have dl the
> > netinst image from debian (the official for test).
> I
> > cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it
> to
> > recognize my pcmcia ethernet card. I have
> specified
> > boot in the boot parameters, but pcmcia has not
> been
> > turned on. I would really, really appreciate some
> > direction here. I can't get any further than the
> > "select network card" of the install. Thanks
> again.
> >
> >
> > Jason Housewright
> >
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>
> Hi Jason,
>
> am not an expert, but my pcmcia ethernetcard
> required
> the loading of pcmcia modules in the kernel. This is
> fairly
> simple to do, unless you need to compile them in the
> kernel, in
> which case you're in whole new world of
> trouble/hurt/learning ;-).
>
> Loading pcmcia modules (when enabled in your
> kernel)
> is fairly straigth forward: run as root 'lsmod',
> which shows the
> currently loaded mdules. If there are no modules
> named 'pcmcia_core'
> or such, you can start with 'modprobe pcmcia_core'
> which tries to
> load the pcmcia modules. If this succeeds, (check
> with 'lsmod'),
> you can try to load your apropriate network card
> driver with
> 'modprobe <drivername>'. Your drivers can be found
> at
> '/lib/modules/<kernel version>/pcmcia'. Work from
> there.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jan.
>
>
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