modify Kernel Boot parameters and PCMCIAutils

[AJJam]

I am having a very hard time with Getting my Wireless card to work. I think, the problem is that the kernel does not recognize the card bus slot. I am trying to use ndiswrapper to install the wireless car, but the card does not even turn on when I boot up the laptop. I still have some basic questions. Here are my questions:

I removed pcmcia-cs and install sysfsutils and pcmciautils using emerge. The Kernel.org suggests that In order to install the PCMCIAutils, I have to modify the Makefile, but I don't Know where this Makefile is. I have looked almost everywhere, but I can't find any file to modify. This is the link: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/howto.html#utils

The second Question is the Kernel.org suggests to set 'pci=assign-busses', but again I don't know how to append 'pci=assign-busses' (no quotes) to the kernel boot parameters. What File should I modify? How do I change the Kernel Boot parameters? Here is the link:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html#pcmciautils

Here is a detailed lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:03.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:06.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev aa)
00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev aa)
00:0a.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 02)
00:0c.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:0c.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:0c.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M



Your Response would be really appreciated.Thank you all.

[jomen]

do you have this enabled in your kernel-config?
in: Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA) -> PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support -> CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support
it is needed for your CardBus Bridge
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[AJJam]

Yes it is enabled.and I had comiled the kernel again to make sure that it is enabled.

[jomen]

[AJJam]

[jomen]

do you have these installed:
sys-apps/pcmciautils
sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-cis
sys-apps/pcmcia-cs
maybe this too - not sure:
sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-pnptools

Do you have built the drivers as modules? - load them...
yenta_socket
pcmcia

Did you start the pcmcia service?
/etc/init.d/pcmcia status
/etc/init.d/pcmcia start

[AJJam]

I have re-emerge the pcmcia-cs only. I can not emerge sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-cis and sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-pnptools because they are blocking pcmcia-cs.
I have also re-emerged sys-apps/pcmciautils.

Here are the masseges:

# /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
* PCMCIA support detected
* Starting pcmcia ...
cardmgr[8805]: no sockets found!
* cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA
* modules built or support compiled into the kernel [ !! ]

# /etc/init.d/pcmcia status
* status: stopped

# lsmod
Module Size Used by

[jomen]

Sorry - I confused the old way and the new way to handle pcmcia.

The old way used sys-apps/pcmcia-cs
The new way is using sys-apps/pcmciautils

Therefore and next:
- you can ditch sys-apps/pcmcia-cs you only need sys-apps/pcmciautils

You also do not need to start /etc/init.d/pcmcia

That was what confused me - because the init-script was still there even though it has no use anymore.

Read about it here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html
and here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/howto.html

Plug the card in and watch the messages during this:
as root:
watch tail /var/log/messages - or switch to tty0 - there is also a syslog running
Look through "dmesg" and /var/log/messages to see if the driver for your CardBus Bridge is loaded
If you built it as a kernel-module it will be called yenta_socket - load this module:
modprobe yenta_socket
I can not yet help further because I have not yet set up ndiswrapper on this computer - but will do and tell you about if you still need info
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[AJJam]

[AJJam]

PROBLEM SOLVED.

Thanks y'all.

I am fairly new to gentoo, so I only had to compile yenta-socket as a MODULE. This is what I was missing every time.
Any way Thanks for helping me out.