pcmcia nic prob

theries · 02-28-2004, 05:23 AM

I just installed Debian Woody with Kernel 2.4 on my Acer Extensa 501T.
I cannot bring the Xircom PCMCIA network card to work.

I tried a couple of things, well, they didn't work ...
Any suggestions? Please bear in mind that I pretty new to Linux. Any help is much appreciated.

*edit*
cardctl ident told me that there's no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices but how do I load a driver??

Theries

theries · 02-29-2004, 05:47 AM

So I found out, that there's no driver loaded. Where do I go from here?
With modconf I tried to load xirc2ps_cs only to get this error message:

ds: no socket driver loaded!
/lib/modules/2.4.16-386/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Operation not permitted
/lib/modules/2.4.16-386/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.16-386/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o failes
/lib/modules/2.4.16-386/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o: insmod xirc2ps_cs failed

Does anybody have a clue what that means and what I can do about it?

Oliv' · 02-29-2004, 12:55 PM

and if you try the following command as root:
modprobe xirc2ps_cs
does it work?

theries · 02-29-2004, 02:19 PM

I tried and got the same errror message as above. But thanks anyways ...

Oliv' · 03-01-2004, 07:52 AM

have try to follow the section 3 of the PCMCIA HOWTO (http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp...CIA-HOWTO.html)
else post the output of the /var/log/messages corresponding to your problem... It should give more info