RE: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]
Marty.
Thanks for your feelings of sympathy.
It is not that I am completely illiterate when it comes to *nix sysadmin
(I used to be the sysadmin of a few hp-ux boxes), but what is rather
frustrating is that there does not seem to be a consistent set of
documents/guidelines that help a user with these kinds of issues.
Google is both a blessing and a curse in this context. You find all
kinds of things but putting them in the context of my specific problem
with the version of the Debian distro I am trying to use is basically
impossible (I bump into hundreds of hotplug, pcmcia_cs, ifplugd,....
pages for all kinds of versions of all kinds of distro's)
So let me have a last attempt to get some (well appreciated) community
help for my really pretty basic problem
I want to get a Xircom CBEM56G network/modem card
(http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/resources/doc_library/tech_sp
ecs/spec_xircbem56g100btx.htm) enabled during the boot of Debian 3.1
(2.4 kernel) running on an old Dell D300XT latitute laptop. What should
I install (and/or remove) and how should I configure it?
Thanks,
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty [mailto:martyb@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:28 PM
> To: debian list
> Subject: Re: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot
> [newbie alert]
>
> Peter Coppens wrote:
> > If I remove pcmcia-cs (or at least make sure it is not
> initialized by
> > removing the links from the /etc/rcx.d directories) I can't even
> > manually start the network (with ifup -a) after booting
>
> I'm not familiar enough with pcmcia-cs nor hotplug to guess what's
> happening, but beware that for a variety of reasons just disabling
> a package is not the same as removing it, at least for the purposes
> of your test. For example the packaging system's "diversions" may
> affect both packages and the only way to eliminate any interaction
> may be to remove one or the other package.
>
> On the other since you're a newbie be cautious about removing
> hotplug, since it could make your system unbootable.
>
> Hopefully somebody more familiar with your issues can help at
> this point.
>
>
> >
> > If I first manually start pcmcia I can ifup the network.
> >
> > Any guidance would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Marty [mailto:martyb@ix.netcom.com]
> >
>
> snip
>
> >> If you have cardctl then I assume you are running pcmcia-cs.
> >> It's not clear
> >> to me why you would need both that and hotplug, because it
> >> seems that their
> >> functions overlap (although hotplug is listed in the
> >> "recommended" section
> >> of pcmcia-cs). Here is a link I found that supports this theory:
> >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2003/07/msg00234.html
>
>
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