PCMCIA module not loading at boot
 

I ugraded my toshiba laptop from redhat 7.3 to 9.0 using apt-get and PCMCIA lan card (internet) but after the upgrade,

1) PCMCIA modules are not loading at boot time. lsmod does not list pcmcia_core, yenta_socket and ds. But they successfully get loaded when I do insmod pcmcia_core, yenta_socket and ds. How do make it load automatically at boot time. Also, in services pcmcia is not listed.

2) I had gnome working before but after upgrade gnome is not working. I am using startx. What do I need to add in .xinitrc?? there is no gnome-session or gnome-wm any where. Icewm is working with exec icewm

3) The black screen terminal size (when I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 or F2 or F3 .. so on ) is small, however the graphical mode is showing full screen

Thanks a lot in advance
Dev

hi

for ur pcmcia card

u need to see that ur pcmcia service

service pcmcia status

to start it

service pcmcia start

regards

Thanks for the reply,
service pcmcia status returns

pcmcia: unrecognized service

hi
do u have the required packages for pcmcia installed
like i get the following on FC2
what do u get on this

[root@gaurav linux-2.6.8.1]# rpm -qa|grep pcmcia
pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-1.5
[root@gaurav linux-2.6.8.1]#

regards

rpm -qa | grep pcmcia returns nothing. What all packages do I need to install?

Dev

hi there

sorry there is no such package for rH 9.0 as we have in FC2
instead there is this

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/redhat/...31-13.i386.rpm

try it

regards

hey masand,
I installed kernel-pcmcia-cs package and scheduling the pcmcia service at the boot time but still the modules dont get loaded automatically and the network card light does not glow untill I manually load the modules using insmod

Regarding gnome, I installed gnome-session package and gnome is working fine.

Thanks
Dev

hi there

so u r able to load ur card manually!!!

this might be happening since u have upgraded using apt-get and it might not have changed ur /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe are respomsible for the same

so u need to look into them
i have't ugraded like this so his is just a guess from my side

i have though dited modpraobe.conf to adjust somthing when i upgraded my kernel from 2.4 to 2.6

also why didn't u try upgarding frm the CDs or the full new install


regards

Hey Thanks Yaar,
I will check up the modules.conf and modprobe. Thanks for your help. I didn't do it from cd cause I donot have a cdrom drive in my laptop and no floppy either. it is one of those slim laptops. Actually I did some mistake in my lilo.conf and it is not booting up now. I am buying an external floppy drive to fix the lilo. I have a usb external floppy but it doesnot boot into it.
But it was good experience upgrading with apt-get. I would definately use apt-get in the future to install/upgrade packages because it automatically takes care of the dependency issue of red-hat. Previously I used to hate Red-hat for this reason and I was happy with Slackware. But noe since there is apt-get for rH too, i started liking it. I installed gnome, KDE, mplayer, xine, wine and many other softwares with apt-get.

Thanks again
Dev

hi there

with the given constraints , apt-get is goood option

and u might be requiring a hell of good bandwidth for this

and redhat is good OS , i have been working on this for good amount of time
and i have found this a good stable OS

regards

Hi,
I checked up modules.conf and modprobe. nothing related to loading any module. modules.conf has some aliases. and modprobe is executable.

Please help me loading the modules automatically at boot.

Dev

hi there

while we look out for some solutions

add the name of the module in ur /etc/modules.conf

regards:

Sorry for the delay in response. I was out of town.
I tried adding the modules name in modules.conf, but it gave incorrect syntax. How do you add the modules in modules.conf. I just wrote the names of the modules.

Thanks
Dev

Any help??
Dev

hi there

try adding
modprobe <module name>

in ur
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

file
regards