PCMCIA Card Help needed!

alan_daniel · 01-28-2005, 08:07 PM

I recently upgraded from FC2 to FC3 on an IBM Thinkpad. Before the upgrade I had a wireless network card working, enabling me to connect to my home network, but since the upgrade, for some reason it isn't picking up the card. I checked /var/log/messages and nothing happens when I plug in the card. I also did a modprobe for orinoco (by instruction), but it didn't do anything. The Network Connection is still listed in my Network Configuration Setup as wlan0, but I can't enable it because it says it can't find the hardware or something like that. Please help!

Vincent_Vega · 01-29-2005, 01:21 AM

What type of card is it? Did you wipe out your FC2 or just do some sort of upgrade to FC3? Do you know how to compile a kernel? What does 'uname -r' tell you for a kernel version?

alan_daniel · 01-29-2005, 07:34 AM

I upgraded from FC2 to FC3. And it's the 2.6.9 kernel. And it's a Linksys Wireless-G card. And it worked on FC2, so it should work on FC3. The only problem is it's not picking up the hardware for some reason (I think)

Vincent_Vega · 02-01-2005, 11:05 PM

Sounds like you've got a kernel issue if it's not even recognizing the card. Do you know how to compile a kernel?? If you're not really sure, try this to see if it's seeing the card:
tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages (as root)
then plug the card in and it should give a message. That will at least let you know if it's even seeing the card. Let me know what you get.

alan_daniel · 02-02-2005, 06:33 AM

Here's what happened:

Code:

# tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages
Feb  2 06:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[9116]: session closed for user root
Feb  2 06:15:53 localhost smartd[2349]: Device: /dev/hda, 11 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors 
Feb  2 06:45:53 localhost smartd[2349]: Device: /dev/hda, 11 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors 
Feb  2 07:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[9120]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb  2 07:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[9120]: session closed for user root
Feb  2 07:14:17 localhost login(pam_unix)[8506]: session opened for user motw by LOGIN(uid=0)
Feb  2 07:14:17 localhost  -- motw[8506]: LOGIN ON tty1 BY motw
Feb  2 07:14:23 localhost kernel: mtrr: base(0x98000000) is not aligned on a size(0x300000) boundary
Feb  2 07:15:52 localhost smartd[2349]: Device: /dev/hda, 11 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors 
Feb  2 07:30:31 localhost su(pam_unix)[9374]: session opened for user root by motw(uid=500)
Feb  2 07:30:49 localhost wait_for_sysfs[9425]: error: unknown bus, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> 'ieee1394'
Feb  2 07:30:49 localhost wait_for_sysfs[9425]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 039) needs an update to handle the device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:09.0/0000:02:00.0/fw-host0' properly (unknown bus) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Feb  2 07:30:49 localhost ieee1394.agent[9439]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x
Feb  2 07:30:49 localhost kernel: ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Feb  2 07:30:49 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Feb  2 07:30:49 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Feb  2 07:30:49 localhost kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Unexpected PCI resource length of 1000!
Feb  2 07:30:49 localhost kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11]  MMIO=[18800000-188007ff]  Max Packet=[1024]
Feb  2 07:30:50 localhost wait_for_sysfs[9454]: error: unknown bus, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> 'ieee1394'
Feb  2 07:30:50 localhost wait_for_sysfs[9454]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 039) needs an update to handle the device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:09.0/0000:02:00.0/fw-host0/003095241000e0a9' properly (unknown bus) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Feb  2 07:30:51 localhost ieee1394.agent[9465]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x

Vincent_Vega · 02-02-2005, 01:42 PM

Why is it talking about IEEE1394?? Is that stuff what came up when you plugged in the PCMCIA card? If so, I'm figuring it's definitely a kernel issue and you'll either have to download a different one or compile your own to get the support you need.

alan_daniel · 02-02-2005, 01:46 PM

Yeah, that happens when I plug in the firewire card.

I would definitely agree with you on the kernel issue thing, but I have had it running on this kernel. It worked right after I upgraded to FC3 and then just randomly stopped after the first few times.