Can't get pcmcia network card recognised[never solved]

madchaz · Last edited by madchaz on Sat Sep 20, 2008 5:06 pm; edited 1 time in total

Good day,
Fresh install on my old laptop.

Basically, I can't get eth0 to work. It works on the livecd, but not with the kernel I built.

From the livecd, lspcmcia gives this

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:54 am Post subject:

You need to install PCMCIA support into the kernel...most likely yenta.

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madchaz · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:57 am Post subject:

Already done. (and yes, it's yenta)
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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:13 am Post subject:

Results of lspci?

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madchaz · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:53 am Post subject:

Here are the full output of lspci, lspcmcia and lsmod with livecd and the kernel I built (remember, this is a pcmcia network card on a laptop)

LiveCD results

madchaz · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:30 am Post subject:

This is driving me nuts.

pcmcia bus starts, as the leds on the nic light up.
The yenta modules load and if I plug in my wireless card, I can see it with lspci. (I intend to try and get THAT to work later)

However, the pcnet_cs module, even if I load it by hand, does not appear to want to associate with the wired nic.

This is even more frustrating in that this worked fine before my HD gave out and I had to throw it in the garbage. It was refusing to so much as spin, so I did not bother to attemt to clone it when I got a new one.

Edit: I am currently installing the latest unstable gentoo_sources (2.6.26-r1). Will see if this fixes it. Curently using 2.6.25-r7
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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:02 am Post subject:

Have you tried compiling the driver directly into the kernel...both yenta and the driver for your nic? That might be something to try next.

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madchaz · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject:

well, the latest driver did not help. Good idea pappy. Unfortunately, I tried that next with as much luck.

Starting to wonder if I won't just put win2k on the thing ...
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Sadako · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:43 pm Post subject:

I have a similar card, using the same drivers (this wouldn't be a belkin card, would it?).

I don't use it or the old lappy I have it in much, but I remember having similar issues to this the last time I did.

Can't recall exactly what I did to get it up, but I'm pretty sure I at least needed to install sys-apps/pcmciautils to get it to work, I think it was needed to get udev to do it's thing.

Try messing around with cardctl manually, see if that does anything.

If that's of no help I can look through the drive I have the install for that lappy on (assuming I can find it) to see wtf else I did.

And for the record, I don't think you need yenta at all for this, these are 16-bit pcmcia cards, and don't seem to require any 32-bit cardbus hardware support, which is what yenta is for.
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madchaz · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject:

The card is a netgear FA411 card. I did have pcmciautils installed, as shown by the fact that I had lspcmcia.

In the end, got tired of messing with it and just installed windows 2k on it. Just wish SP4 did not fuck up my wireless card. Then I could get chrome installed on there at least.
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