Hi,
I recently installed RH 8.0 on a Compaq Laptop (2105US). I've updated the kernel. It boots the network ahead of pcmcia services and when I have a network card in the slot, it freezes. I re-order the pcmcia and network services and then then network service hangs.

Does anyone know why this is? I'm desparate for a solution!

Please help. Thank you in advance.

Darren

disable those services first:

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 network off
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 pcmcia off

And start them manually after logging in via;

/sbin/service pcmcia start
/sbin/service network start

And monitor the logs:

tail -f /var/log/messages

this should show the error messages.

So here is what I get when I start the pcmcia service:

Feb 22 09:59:47 localhost kernel: cs: warning: no high memory space available!
Feb 22 09:59:47 localhost kernel: cs: unable to map card memory!
Feb 22 09:59:47 localhost kernel: cs: unable to map card memory!
Feb 22 10:03:56 localhost cardmgr[1065]: watching 1 sockets
Feb 22 10:03:56 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
Feb 22 10:03:56 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Feb 22 10:03:56 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Feb 22 10:03:56 localhost cardmgr[1066]: starting, version is 3.2.3
Feb 22 10:03:56 localhost cardmgr[1066]: socket 0: Anonymous Memory
Feb 22 10:03:56 localhost cardmgr[1066]: executing: 'modprobe memory_cs'
Feb 22 10:03:56 localhost cardmgr[1066]: + modprobe: Can't locate module memory_cs
Feb 22 10:03:56 localhost cardmgr[1066]: modprobe exited with status 255
Feb 22 10:03:56 localhost cardmgr[1066]: module /lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0custom20030219/pcmcia/memory_cs.o not available
Feb 22 10:03:57 localhost cardmgr[1066]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable


And when I start the network I get:

Feb 22 10:08:13 localhost ifup: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :Feb 22 10:08:13 localhost ifup: SET failed on device eth1 ; No such device.
Feb 22 10:08:13 localhost ifup: Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
Feb 22 10:08:13 localhost ifup: SET failed on device eth1 ; No such device.
Feb 22 10:08:13 localhost ifup:
Feb 22 10:08:13 localhost ifup: Determining IP information for eth1...
Feb 22 10:08:18 localhost ifup: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
Feb 22 10:08:18 localhost ifup: eth1: unknown interface: No such device
Feb 22 10:08:18 localhost ifup: eth1: unknown interface: No such device
Feb 22 10:08:19 localhost dhclient: Bind socket to interface: No such device


I'm using a standard linksys fastethernet PC network card.

There is IRQ sharing taking place on IRQ 5 I've learned. Could that pose a problem?

Darren