pcmcia problems
 

I am running slackware 8.0 and am running the 2.4.5 kernel. I have a network everywhere (linksys) NP100 pcmcia card.

I tried to use the card with my initial setup but found out that it was not supported with my current version of cardmgr. So, I find that the latest version supports my card and I download it.

I unpacked it and executed make config with success. Then I did make all and make install. During make all, I did notice some warnings come up, but since it completed, I didn't give it much thought.

When I start my computer here are the errors I get related to the pcmcia services:

cardmgr[53]: socket 0: Linksys NP100 Network Everywhere Ethernet
cardmgr[53]: executing: 'modprobe axnet_cs'
cardmgr[53]: bind 'axnet_cs' to socket 0 failed: Operation not permitted
cardmgr[53]: socket 1: serial or Modem

ifconfig -a only gives me the loopback and dummy interface.

lsmod yields

Module Size Used by
serial_cs 5680 0 (unused)
axnet_cs 12080 0 (unused)
ds 6768 2 [serial_cs axnet_cs]
i82365 21936 2
pcmcia_core 35808 0 [serial_cs axnet_cs ds i82365]
ppp_deflate 39040 0 (unused)
ppp_async 6608 0 (unused)
ppp_generic 16656 0 [ppp_deflate ppp_async]
slip 7744 0 (unused)
lp 5936 0 (unused)
parport_pc 19152 1
parport 23040 1 [lp parport_pc]

I am kind of at a loss on this one. The only other thing I noticed, was that depmod yields "unresolved symbols errors" for several modules. None of the above modules are listed, but one that I thought might be important was

tcic.o

Help on this would be greatly appreciated.

hello,
did you run depmod -a after you install the modules and do you have the kernel header linked to the source like this:
/usr/include/linux -> ../src/linux/include/linux/

yes, I have the symbolic link pointing where it should. I did run depmod after installing the modules and here are the results:

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/3c574_cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/aha152x_cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/fdomain_cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/fmvj18x_cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/ftl_cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/memory_cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/netwave_cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/nmclan_cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/qlogic_cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/tcic.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.o

I am not sure why this is the case. I knew about it, but I didn't think I was using any of these modules. The driver for my card is not in this list, so I figured there wouldn't be any problems.

Any ideas??

hello,
i would guess that there is a module or two that are needed and did not get compiled...
check the kernel config taht shipped with slackware to see if yours matches in the areas needed - i.e. pcmcia.