Re: PCMCIA configuration in sarge

[Andrei Popescu <andreimp@rdslink.ro>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:09:07 +0000
Doofus <doofus@bulldoghome.com> wrote:

> 
> After my laptop is booted, I can get driver modules:
> 
>     orinoco_cs
>     orinoco
>     hermes
> 
> loaded just by typing `modprobe orinoco_cs`
> 
> 
> Now I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to get them loaded automatically at boot
> time. If I put any or all of the modules in /etc/modules, I get an error
> message in the boot process very close to:
> 
>     ds: no socket driver!
> 
> 
> and then after boot is finished, ds.o is loaded but not my driver
> modules. I'm guessing this is because the init scripts are trying to
> load the contents of /etc/modules before ds.o is loaded, which won't
> work? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> 
> Can someone explain what's happening here, and what the solution is get
> everything loaded in the right order? I haven't found an answer in
> /usr/share/doc/pcmcia_cs.
> 
> kernel 2.4.27
> dell inspiron 8200
> 
> 
> Many thanks for any assistance.

Just a wild thought ... did you try adding ds to /etc/modules? (before the others of course). That is if ds.o is also a module (AFAIK modules now have the extension .ko)

Andrei
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