Issues with Netgear FA410 pcmcia NIC - modules not loading

[mtrunnell]

Hello everybody Hopefully this is an easy question.

Here's a listing of what cardmgr says when I insert the card:

cardmgr[221]: socket 1: NE2000 Compatible Fast Ethernet
cardmgr[221]: executing: 'modprobe 8390'
cardmgr[221]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
pcnet_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use
cardmgr[221]: get dev info on socket 1 failed: No such device
cardmgr[221]: exiting

strange, eh? Why isn't it loading? ifconfig only lists loopback.
For this example, I'll reboot and try again. Note that the NIC is the *only* pc card inserted. So with the card already inserted, here's a listing of everything after boot:

# insmod pcmcia_core
# insmod i82365
Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r7/pcmcia/i82365.o
Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 for device 00:04.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
TI 1220 rev 02 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:04, mem 0x10000000
host opts [0]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 2/5]
host opts [1]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 6/9]
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
ISA irqs (scanned) = 4,7 PCI status changes
# insmod ds
Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r7/pcmcia/ds.o
# cardmgr -f
cardmgr[140]: watching 2 sockets
cardmgr[140]: starting, version is 3.1.33
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean
cardmgr[140]: socket 1: NE2000 Compatible Fast Ethernet
cardmgr[140]: executing: 'modprobe 8390'
cardmgr[140]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x130-0x137 0x220-0x22f 0x2f8-0x2ff 0x320-0x327 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x3f8-0x3ff 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0138-0x021f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0230-0x02f7: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0300-0x031f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0380-0x0387: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0390-0x03bf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x03f7: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0400-0x04cf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
pcnet_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use
cardmgr[140]: get dev info on socket 1 failed: No such device
cardmgr[140]: exiting
#

I dunno. Elsewhere on the web there are links to an "fa_select.c" for the FA410Tx that some have found useful in getting this it to see the network. But when I do this:

# ./fa_select eth0 1

it complains, "ioctl: no such device" And of course, there is no /dev/eth0... because I did something else wrong, or because the module isn't loaded...?
Anyone have any ideas? This is the first laptop i've installed linux on, so I have zero experience with PCMCIA modules and cardmgr... so I have no idea what's going on here.

Any help at all is appreciated!

[bigattichouse]

This is silly. I had the same problem, and noticed I had the network card in Socket 1 (just like you did in the example). Once everything was up and running, I moved the card to socket 0, did the modprobes listed in your cardmgr log, and... well.. it worked!