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SoCalChris
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 Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 7:04 am Post subject: Won't recognize my pcmcia network card with live cd |
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I'm trying to install Gentoo on my laptop. I'm using a Siemen's Speedstream 1012 pcmcia card. From what I've found online, it uses the tulip drivers.
When I boot the live cd with the "dopcmcia" option, the lights on the card light up indication a connection.
If I run "ifconfig", it only shows the local loopback.
If I try "modprobe tulip", I get the following error message:
| Quote: | /lib/modules/2.4.21-gss/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.21-gss/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-gss/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.21-gss/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o: insmod tulip failed |
If I run "cat /proc/pci", I get several entries, one of which is:
| Quote: | Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
Ethernet controller: (rev 16).
Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=32. Max Lat=64. |
I'm sure I'm missing somethign easy, so any help would be appreciated.
TIA, Chris |
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Arasi
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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There was another thread on this here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21650&highlight=speedstream+1012+pcmcia
However its not entirely conclusive, one of the suggestions is to run the network config, if you type:
# netcardconfig
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# net-setup
See if either of those can get you going, it seems from the other discussion that there was a debate on whether 1.4 contained the tulip drivers, however someone said that all of them were built into the kernel.
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Arasi
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | If I run "ifconfig", it only shows the local loopback.
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Some extra thoughts...try this:
# ifconfig eth0
ifconfig only shows active devices by default, so your card may be recognized and on there but its not up at this point, by doing an ifconfig and eth0 your looking at the information of that device.
You can also try to do
# ifconfig eth0 up
to bring the card up which should also request dhcp address at that point. Of course also try the net setup options I listed before as they should bring the card up for you.
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SoCalChris
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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If I try running "ifconfig eth0", it says
| Quote: | | eth0: error fetching interface information: Device Not Found |
Running "ifconfig eth0 up" tells me
| Quote: | | eth0: unknown interface: No such device |
Running "netcardconfig" does nothing, it says that the command is not found.
Running "net-setup eth0" asks me if I want DHCP or to specify an IP manually. I tried both. They tell me to run ifconfig to make sure it is set up properly, but it isn't.
Also, I've seen the thread you referenced, but I wasn't able to get much info from it. Like you said, that thread mainly talks about whether the tulip drivers ar part of the Live CD. The CD I am booting from has tulip.o on it, so I'm assuming that would be all I need. Is there maybe a different tulip driver for PCMCIA cards? Also, in that thread, the guy was saing that none of his lights on the card come on, but mine do, so I'm thinking it might be a different problem.
Any other ideas?
Thanks again, Chris |
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Arasi
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Running "ifconfig eth0 up" tells me
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eth0: unknown interface: No such device
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Hmm
Well it seems to me like its not really accessing the device, which leaves me a little stumped as to the next step other than doing a google search against gentoo and tulip drivers to see if theres a work around.
Although your lights are coming on it doesn't mean its entirely different, it still sounds like lack of proper driver support. I don't suppose you have access to a 1.3 live cd like the other thread mentioned to try and see if you card fires up? I'm not sure if you can find it on a mirror anywhere but if you could it may be worth the test... even with a 1.3 live cd you'll be able to sync and pull down a recent portage tree and stages.
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robgue
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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i'm having the same problem on my compaq armada 7400 laptop on a netgear pcmcia card (fa411). i'm a total newb to this and have searched around and went by the instalattion guides but can't get it going. (even tried to install it with out network support through the snapshot and can't get that either.) either way i'd like to get the net card going through the installation process. can any one help?  |
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Edweirdo
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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I had a similiar problem. I happened to have the KNOPPIX CD http://www.knoppix.org/ and that recognized my card without any problem.
You might try to start the pcmcia services:
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/etc/init.d/pcmcia start
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and see what happens.
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robgue
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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awesome!!! that was it. got it going. thanks.  |
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Arasi
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| Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | You might try to start the pcmcia services: |
Wow chalk that one up as experience then....I would have figured based on the information coming that pcmcia was up since he saw something that looked like an ethernet device.
But then again my first networking problem was weird and wacky too but once it disappeared...it really vanished and the network has been great since.
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SoCalChris
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:16 am Post subject: |
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Ok, I tried running "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start", but it gave me a warning that pcmcia had already been started (I loaded to kernel with the 'dopcmcia' option when booting)
Any more ideas? I really appreciate the help. |
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Edweirdo
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Did you load the module for your network card? For me, I had to load the module for my card before I started pcmcia service.
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zennehoy
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Chris, did you ever get this working? I'm running into the same problem with the Speedstream 1021 on an Armada 7400.
Any tips would be great!
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