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kretsch
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 Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:15 am Post subject: PCMCIA help |
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OK, I just finished installing Gentoo on a fairly old laptop (Compaq Presario 1255) using a NetGear FA410TX ethernet adapter. I have read through Gentoo's (and several other) forums and no one seems to agree on how to actually get the darn thing working.
Here's what I have done:
I compiled support for CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support as well as i82365 support into my kernel (not as modules).
I emerged pcmcia-cs and then ran:
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rc-update add pcmcia default
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which seemed to work fine. So then I reboot, and when it tries to run cardmgr during bootup, it says:
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* Starting pcmcia...
cardmgr[3021]: no sockets found!
* cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA
* modules built or support compiled into the kernel
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As would be expected, if I then run ifconfig eth0 up, I get "eth0: unknown interface: No such device."
Any thoughts/suggestions appreciated.
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wmckean
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What PCMCIA type card are you trying to use? I guess the real issue is the fact that card manager is not running properly. Let's start by getting your kernel version and PCMCIA-CS version. I've been working with PCMCIA since 2.4.20, so I might be able to help 
Wes
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kretsch
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I got it working...at the time I posted I, in fact, had not yet actually moved my new yenta-possessing kernel image to my /boot directory (whoops!).
Yenta support in the kernel was all it took after all. Thanks for replying though!
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