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KasperGirome
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:57 pm    Post subject: PCMCIA just won't work Reply with quote

Hey everybody.

Sorry for being such a totalt n00b, but I have for the past two hours been unable to make my pcmcia-card work with the Gentoo LiveCD. I have a PRiME Xpress 10/100Base-TX Fast Ethernet PC Card.

I have tried many things. Doing gentoo dopcmcia simply doesn't work because it makes the booting process f00 up. I have tried doing modprobe pcmcia_core after having booted up without dopcmcia - and that works - but other than that, I am lost.

Please, if any of you people know of a way to make this work so that I can install Gentoo, please tell me. Is my card even supported by the 2.4-kernel? I have tried running the smp as well. That didn't work out. :(

Yours sincerely,

Kasper
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:18 pm    Post subject: This might work... Reply with quote

Make sure you have emerged the pcmcia-cs package and then add it to the start up scripts:

Code:

#emerge pcmcia-cs
#rc-update add pcmcia default


This should find the card at boot and you should see the card manager echo text strings about your card such as the card name PCI id etc, I think.

Also make sure in your kernel configuration you have PCI crap enabled. Once that is all set up your card should be recognized as eth0... then just do a

Code:

#rc-update add net.eth0 default


That should do the trick, oh if you are using DHCP make sure to remove the comment # thingy in front of dhcp in /etc/conf.d/net.
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