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sequeira
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 Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject: 16-bit pcmcia doesn't work with kernel > 2.6.13 |
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I know what you are going to say: Aha. look at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-304357-highlight-.html
Well I have and still no joy. The DHCP server offers the laptop an IP address, but that's as far as it goes.
Dec 25 18:08:41 fireball dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.88 to 00:80:c7:6f:52:74 (wimp) via eth0
the device is recognised, the light is on, it's just not connected.
I did a fresh install yesterday, been hunting around for a solution since, but no joy. Not sure what else to try.
Any ideas please?
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Networking & Security.
Network problem, so moved here.
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pasousa
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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I don't understand the problem! Can you report it more carefully?
how did the modem give an "The DHCP server offers the laptop an IP address" if the card if not well recogneted?
What lights shows up?
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sequeira
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| pasousa wrote: | I don't understand the problem! Can you report it more carefully?
how did the modem give an "The DHCP server offers the laptop an IP address" if the card if not well recogneted?
What lights shows up? |
The DHCP server _not_ a modem offers the laptop an address but the laptop has problems with it. The pccard is one of those with a connector on the pccard side, a cable and a connector into which the network cable plugs into. This has an orange light showing that it is on, and a green light for any activity. The orange light is on, and is as soon as it has been recognised (see below).
I have done a fresh reinstall, got in a bit of a mess attempting to use pcmciautils, the symptoms remain the same. May I point out that I have been using this laptop AOK with kernels up to 2.6.13, 2.6.14 appears to break it.
| Quote: | Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.0 [1014:00eb]
Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.0, mfunc 0xfba97543, devctl 0x62
Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 11
Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: Socket status: 30000006
Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:02.1
Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.1 [1014:00eb]
Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Dec 26 18:37:00 wimp kernel: Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.1, mfunc 0xfba97543, devctl 0x62
Dec 26 18:37:01 wimp kernel: Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 11
Dec 26 18:37:01 wimp kernel: Socket status: 30000010
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage.
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details.
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp cardmgr[4207]: watching 2 sockets
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x130-0x137 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x388-0x38f
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x130-0x137 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x388-0x38f
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: excluding 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: clean.
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp cardmgr[4207]: socket 1: Xircom CE3-10/100 Fast Ethernet
Dec 26 18:37:02 wimp kernel: eth0: Xircom: port 0x300, irq 3, hwaddr 00:80:C7:6F:52:74
Dec 26 18:37:06 wimp cardmgr[4207]: executing: './network start eth0 2>&1'
Dec 26 18:37:06 wimp cardmgr[4207]: + Configuration not set for eth0 - assuming dhcp
Dec 26 18:37:06 wimp rc-scripts: Configuration not set for eth0 - assuming dhcp
Dec 26 18:37:08 wimp kernel: eth0: MII link partner: 45e1
Dec 26 18:37:08 wimp kernel: eth0: MII selected
Dec 26 18:37:08 wimp kernel: eth0: media 100BaseT, silicon revision 4
Dec 26 18:38:06 wimp dhcpcd[4591]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response
Dec 26 18:38:06 wimp cardmgr[4207]: + [ !! ]
Dec 26 18:38:06 wimp cardmgr[4207]: + [ !! ]
Dec 26 18:38:06 wimp cardmgr[4207]: start cmd exited with status 1
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Please check the following link for kernel options
http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/11/msg00064.html
Recently I had some problems with the pcmcia and after reading it I get it done.
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sequeira
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for your answer. I will double check and report back, but I'm 99% certain that my configuration is OK.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 10:18 am Post subject: Re: 16-bit pcmcia doesn't work with kernel > 2.6.13 |
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Well, did you?
looking at your dmesg output i still see cardmgr running.
But then again, your kernel doest stil have tho old (obsolete) ioctl enabled.
this is what i use:
| Code: | # PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support
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CONFIG_PCCARD=y
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS=y
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_IOCTL is not set
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y
#
# PC-card bridges
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CONFIG_YENTA=y
# CONFIG_PD6729 is not set
# CONFIG_I82092 is not set
CONFIG_PCCARD_NONSTATIC=y |
Unmerged pcmcia-cs, removed the scrip from any runlevel and emerged pcmciautils.
Works great. |
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sequeira
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 10:38 am Post subject: Re: 16-bit pcmcia doesn't work with kernel > 2.6.13 |
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| Pandor wrote: |
Well, did you?
looking at your dmesg output i still see cardmgr running.
But then again, your kernel doest stil have tho old (obsolete) ioctl enabled.
this is what i use:
| Code: | # PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support
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CONFIG_PCCARD=y
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS=y
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_IOCTL is not set
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y
#
# PC-card bridges
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CONFIG_YENTA=y
# CONFIG_PD6729 is not set
# CONFIG_I82092 is not set
CONFIG_PCCARD_NONSTATIC=y |
Unmerged pcmcia-cs, removed the scrip from any runlevel and emerged pcmciautils.
Works great. |
I did, and reinstalled, because my previous attempts to get pcmcia going got things in a bit of a mess, as mentioned above.
I'll report back when I have something to report.
Thanks.
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sequeira
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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I have been through this thread, and it does not offer any solutions, only the problem 
Nevertheless, I configured the kernel as described, to no effect.
The odd thing is that it has enough connectivity to trigger a DHCPOFFER from the server, and that's as far as it goes, I have been through my IP kernel config _very_ carefully.
I'm considering trying one of the other DHCP clients, but I guess I I'll have another shot at the pcmciautils fix.
BTW here's ifconfig -a output:
| Code: | eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C7:6F:52:74
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2360 (2.3 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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sequeira
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:58 am Post subject: Re: 16-bit pcmcia doesn't work with kernel > 2.6.13 |
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| Pandor wrote: | Well, did you?
looking at your dmesg output i still see cardmgr running.
But then again, your kernel doest stil have tho old (obsolete) ioctl enabled.
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Unmerged pcmcia-cs, removed the scrip from any runlevel and emerged pcmciautils.
Works great. |
Not for me unfortunately. The only difference is that the light only comes on if I explicitly start /etc/init.d/net.eth0 (not good), but the symptoms remain the same, the DHCP server offering an address, and the client timing out.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: 16-bit pcmcia doesn't work with kernel > 2.6.13 |
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| sequeira wrote: | | Pandor wrote: | Well, did you?
looking at your dmesg output i still see cardmgr running.
But then again, your kernel doest stil have tho old (obsolete) ioctl enabled.
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Unmerged pcmcia-cs, removed the scrip from any runlevel and emerged pcmciautils.
Works great. |
Not for me unfortunately. The only difference is that the light only comes on if I explicitly start /etc/init.d/net.eth0 (not good), but the symptoms remain the same, the DHCP server offering an address, and the client timing out. |
do you see your pcmcia card using lspci? if you don't see it.. try reading this link: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html#knownproblems 
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sequeira
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject: Re: 16-bit pcmcia doesn't work with kernel > 2.6.13 [CLOS |
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I had been to that link several times.
I bought a 32 bit card off ebay, and it works fine. I haven't yet found a distro that works with the 16bit card
I think the Gentoo installation team may have an inkling about this problem, they are still using kernel 2.6.13 (or at least were when I started this thread).
So the installation goes OK, but compiling the kernel and using it loses connectivity.
Anyway, until things are sorted, I would recommend the use of a 32 bit card.
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