pcmcia all of a sudden

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

i had been successfully running gentoo with my current setup for i dont know how long but now i have problems. when it boots up i get

starting pcmcia .....
cardmgr[4842]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
cardmgr failed to start. make sure that you have pcmcia loaded either as a module or built into the kernel
bringing eth0 up...
dhcpcd[4849]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device
failed to bring eth0 up

obviously this gives me problems since now i cannot get on the network or fiddle around on the internet. HELP!

cranch · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 47

Have you recompiled your kernel lately?

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

sure haven't. i have not done anything really.

masseya · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 10:52 pm Post subject:

You could always re-compile pcmcia-cs from the source you have already downloaded on your machine and then double check your setup files.
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cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

how do i emerge that package? it automatically tries to download it if i emerge pcmcia-cs, and if i emerge /usr/portage/distfiles/pcmcia-cs it pukes too. it is there though.

cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

i have the following lines in my /etc/modules.autoload

i82365
pcmcia-core
ds

and this has always worked. now as it attempts to load these at startup i see it saying "failed to load xxx" where xxx is each of those things. once it boots up i can type in

# insmod pcmcia_core
# insmod i82365
# insmod ds
# cardmgr -f

and it works like a charm. whats up with that?

masseya · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 12:07 am Post subject:

Well, I would change the order of the modules in modules.autoload to match what you did to get it to work after you booted.

If that doesn't work and you want to re-emerge pcmcia-cs from the source you have downloaded, you can trick it by checking the version that you have downloaded and masking everything higher than that in your /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask file.
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cf25 · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 158

i appreciate the help. that is the order that i use after boot up. no success. i emerged pcmcia-cs. that didn't work either. i'm really confused here.