PCMCIA Issues....

Marthisdil · Guest

OK, following the install instructions, everything works great, UNTIL I rebot the machine. It is unable to find the network, at all. I can compile the kernel with, and without the pcmcia stuff built in, or as modules, and still doesn't find it. Try and do a fresh install, and the network works great after doing the insmod stuff. Just on the production machine it doesn't.

Any ideas? I've put in pcmcia_core, i82365, and ds in modules.autoload, cardmgr says 'watching 2 sockets', but when the system tries to bring up eth0, it couldn't start it.

Thanks,
M

delta407 · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 5:52 pm Post subject:

Moved to Laptops forum, as it's PCMCIA-related.

Did you modify your /etc/init.d/net.eth0 file according to the install guide? Can you run "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start" after the system has booted?
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TomorrowPlusX · Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2002 7:57 pm Post subject: I might have a similar problem

Somehow, magically, about a week ago my laptop stopped finding my pcmcia network card on boot. I'm baffled as to why. I have to assume its related to overzealous use of etc-update... what I observed, however, is that if I plug in the card *after* boot it will be recognized and net.eth0 is started properly.

So, at least give a shot at unplugging/re-plugging it, to see if it's an issue of it being fired up too early.

chadh · Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2002 11:13 pm Post subject:

marthisdil · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

chadh · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 7:15 pm Post subject:

Okay. That all looks good. Now you have to check your logs for the cardmgr output. You should be able to see what commands cardmgr executes when you insert your card (or when cardmgr starts if the card is already inserted). You should see that it starts ./network eth0. Any errors reported there would be helpful.

Also, is this interface using dhcp or a static ip? You have configured /etc/conf.d/net, right?
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marthisdil · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

chadh · Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 3:22 am Post subject:

I wondered about that serial_cs module last time, and now I know something must not be right. What module does RedHat use for your network card?

Have you tried using the kernel drivers for your card? Maybe you don't need pcmcia-cs at all.
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marthisdil · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

chadh · Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 1:37 pm Post subject:

yenta_socket is for the kernel drivers. Try rebuilding your kernel with pcmcia support and support for your card and see if that works. Instead of loading i82365, load yenta_socket.
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marthisdil · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

chadh · Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 4:47 pm Post subject:

And the error is? Did you build in that serial_cs module (I am just not sure what that is for). Have you tried googling on this?
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marthisdil · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

chadh · Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 5:54 pm Post subject:

Well, obviously, I don't have a clue what is going on. My googling turned up problems with the card, but that was 2 years ago. Since it works in RedHat and on the install, apparently they got those problems sorted out.

Have you tried different kernel (say the redhat kernel)? I have to use those for some usb problems I have with the gentoo kernels. You might also try the mjc kernel. See if that make any difference.

Just for reference, the Gentoo boot CD does use pcmcia-cs, so that should work for you, but I can't explain why it doesn't.

You might also try pcmcia-cs-3.1.34-r7 or 3.1.35, our new ebuilds and see if they work any better.
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marthisdil · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

chadh · Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 8:39 pm Post subject:

You can get the ebuilds from viewcvs on http://www.gentoo.org . You also need to get the tarballs (either from the ibiblio link on gentoo.org or from http://pcmcia-cs.sf.net ).
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marthisdil · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

OK, here's what I did to get it working:

Did a fresh, 100% install. When it came time to compile the kernel and edit the /etc/make.conf beforehand, I didn't add ANYTHING to the USE line. Only thing I did was make it a 686 specific compile.

In the kernel, I told it not to use PCMCIA/CardBus. Compiled, continued on the installation. After moving bzImage to /boot, I did an emerge pcmcia-cs to get the pcmcia stuff.

Once all was said, and done, I rebooted, logged in, without network support.

at the command prompt, did the following:

insmod pcmcia_core
insmod i82365
insmod ds
cardmgr -f

and the network card roared to life. Finally. Now I get to fiddle with each setting I would normally make in the USE section to see what one is causing the issue. Regardless, it's up and running.

NOW, what I need to know, is now I get it to do the above commands on bootup - do I put them in modules.autoload?

Thanks again,
Jason

chadh · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:00 am Post subject: Re: Got it working...now...

funkerts · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 1

I have a Gateway Solo NB and have found the following to work:

cd /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs_pre6/kernel/drivers/pcmcia
modprobe ds<enter>

then run the cardmgr binary:
cardmgr<enter>

should get a message about 'watching two sockets' etc

if you do an ifconfig at this stage you should have eth0 interface; make sure that the NIC driver that you require is loaded:
cd /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs_pre6/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia
<note this is ONLY for a PCMCIA NIC; not a built-in NIC (mboard based)>

in my case: 3c589_cs.o (3com 10Mbps LAN+56K modem) or axnet_cs.o (generic 100Mbit PCMCIA NIC)

modprobe axnet_cs<enter>

then configure the PCMCIA NIC manually: (for a 192.168.0.0 network)

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.100 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0<enter>

then chk you have a configured interface (eth0) just like in the Gentoo install manual <i.e. 'ifconfig'>
if needed, set your gateway as also described in the manual, then check using '/sbin/route'.

HTH :wink:

dp · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 11

i have do all you do men .. but don't work ;-)

Here's the errors :

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device

I have not compiled the kernel with PCMCIA options and i have downloaded the lastest version of pcmcia-cs (for standalone)

If someone can help me please ...

Thanks