Can't locate module ds

jbowencpe · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Orlando

During the boot process, immediately after entiering runlevel 3, I receive the message:
...
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
modprobe: can't locate module ds
...

It then goes on to load pcmcia drivers and cardmgr successfully, then I receive this error:
...
Bringing eth0 up
dhcpcd[901]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device

Failed to bring eth0 up
ERROR: Problem starting needed services
"netmount" was not started
...

What exactly is "ds?" I loaded it successfully from the bootdisk during install but can't seem to find any information about what it actually is and does. I know it has something to do with PCMCIA but I don't know what. Any help is greatly appreciated

Justin

(note: forum search for "module ds" and "ds" returned nothing)

haegar · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 24

pcmcia_core.o and ds.o are created when you compile PCMCIA/CardBus support into your kernel. It is also part of the pcmcia-cs package.

ds.o is necesarry for pcmcia.
So.. perhaps you forgot to activate the switch or you haven't re-emerged pcmcia-cs after a new compilation of your modules.

you should find ds.o
in /lib/modules/yourkernelname/pcmcia/ds.o (pcmcia-cs)
or
/lib/modules/yourkernelname/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o if you use the kernel version.

hope that helps..

jbowencpe · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Orlando

I'm not sure why it's even looking for the module. I've compiled all the PCMCIA drivers into the kernel (cardbus & i82365). Is ds.o still necessary?

dweigert · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 5:08 pm Post subject: Same problem here....

This just started after I did an emerge -u world. I also have the pcmcia drivers in the kernel, but have my card drivers set as modules. After the dhcpcd fails, and subsequent services fail as well, I can start dhcpcd manually on the command line. The machine has no problem finding it's card or contacting the dhcp server. To try to fix this, I did an update of both pcmcia-cs, and dhcpcd. Neither helped. I'm begining to feel that there is a timing issue where something is not yet initialised when dhcp is called. By the way, I'm using a Xircom 10/100 + 56K modem card.
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jbowencpe · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Orlando

I'm using a Xircom card as well (RBEM56g-100 I believe). I've compiled all necessary drivers into the kernel in my attempt to get it working (Linux Cardbus, i82365 just in case, and Xircom cardbus support).

dweigert · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 6:22 pm Post subject:

I think it is the same card. I haven't updated my kernel recently, so I don't think that's at fault. (2.4.19 vanilla with XFS)

Dan
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dweigert · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 3:10 pm Post subject:

I had a thought this morning... I wonder if the script is setting the right device name for the interface... Like dhcpcd eth0. I wonder if it is doing something different because it cant find the ds module.. I'm going to test this and report back.

Dan
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dweigert · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 2:59 pm Post subject:

Ok, I solved it...

The net.eth0 script should also depends on hotplug being executed BEFORE dhcpd. Why it suddenly started being executed after, I don't know. By changing the depend line in /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to read:

jbowencpe · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Orlando

I've tried about every combination of compiling these PCMCIA/NIC drivers (Cardbus, 82365, & Xircom Cardbus) as modules and directly into the kernel. I did an unmerge and re-emerged the PCMCIA stuff as well.

When I compile into the kernel I get:

Entering run level 3
modprobe: can't locate module ds
Bringing eth0 up
dhcpcd[901]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device
Failed to bring eth0 up
ERROR: Problem starting needed services
"netmount" was not started

So I changed net.eth0 from:

dweigert · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 7:30 pm Post subject:

Like I said in my prior posting, you need to make sure pci hotplug is enabled in the kernel... Cardbus cards are really pci cards. and then you have to make sure hotplug is initialised before the net.eth0 is. The Xircom cards by the way are 32bit cardbus cards...

Good luck!

Dan
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jbowencpe · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Orlando

Thanks for the tip - I think I'm a bit step closer. I had to emerge hotplug and compiled it into the kernel. I added

dweigert · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:18 am Post subject:

Ok, You should have all of the pcmcia drivers as modules, except for the socket drivers. They should be in the kernel. In your dmesg, do you have something like the following?

jbowencpe · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Orlando

Excuse my ignorance, but what are you referring to by socket drivers? And if you wouldn't mind posting your kernel configuration or a link to the file so I can download it and look at it, I would really appreciate it. I believe you mentioned you're using vanilla 2.4.19 - I'm running Gentoo 2.4.20 and I'm not sure of the differences between them. I'll play around more with the modules in this one and may emerge vanilla if that doesn't work. Thanks again for your help, Dan.

Justin

georgz · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 2:17 pm Post subject:

Which module do you use for the Xircom Card? I use xircom_cb, added it to modules.autoload. Nothing more neccessary.
If I remember right I didn't get it to work with the other xircom module (xirc2ps_cs.o).

And, my net.eth0 has

dweigert · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 2:46 pm Post subject:

Since I use the kernel drivers rather than the drivers that come with the pcmcia_cs package, I need to use hotplugging etc.. Just doing an insmod of the driver might work, but I sometime I maight want to use a wireless lan card instead, or maybe a firewire card, or whatever.

In any case, the link to my kernel config is:
http://www.taco.com/dlw/gentoo.config

Hope this helps....

Dan
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jbowencpe · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Orlando

Thanks for all your help, guys (especially Dan for your time). Got it working finally!! Had some wierd stuff go on with the kernel config, though. Some of my settings had changed to "N" and I don't know why. But regardless, here's what I did

PCMCIA CardBus = Y
Hotplug = N
Xircom CarBus = M

net.eth0:
depend{
use pcmica
}

modules.autoload:
xircom_cb

I had some other lingering settings that I disabled, such as i82365, and that may have helped. Now I'm on to emerging the portage tree, xfree, etc. Thanks again for your help