PCMCIA support
 

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The 3c589 module may be one of the most common 10/100 networking modules used to date, what problems are you having with it on your current install?

Cheers,

Finegan

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You have to elaborate man, you're not giving me much to go on, what's the output of:

/sbin/cardctl ident

Also, what's the chunk from the command "dmesg" that has to do with pcmcia. Between these two we can figure out wether the problem is pcmcia or the card. Also, and this sounds silly, but its the best debugging built in to anything, there are two tones when pcmcia support starts, the first should be a high pitched beep, as should the second, almost matching, what do you get?

Cheers,

Finegan

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when installing rh 8 or 9 from a floppy for network install you (and i would try 8 first) you need the bootnet.img disk and the pcmciadd.img disk for what you are attempting. you might also need the drvnet.img disk

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Hi

I am having PCMCIA detect problems with a new installation of RH9 as well . I get no sound at all-
I have changed PCMCIA to yes in the boot options in /ETC/SYSCONFIG/PCMCIA but it still does not detect the card
or acknowledge it being removed or inserted.
I am using a 3com 3c589 Lan card

I am also very new to this linus type stuff so precise help would be helpful

Brett

book,

corrupt driver or boot floppies tend to make for an obvious botch install, like a hang or kernel oops, there's very little room for error correction in there, so its really obvious when errors like that dump.

I'm thinking possibly that you have a new enough rev of the 3c589 so that the pcmcia boot disk images might not have an ident for it... which makes this whole task a little messy. I haven't done a netinstall of RH In years, and even though the last time was on a laptop, I would be hard pressed to troubleshoot that one. Honestly, getting a pcmcia card recognized in a floppy boot may be more trouble then its worth... and everyone's netboot images are different, so you might want to hit up SuSe or Debian or Mandrake. From a Newbie perspective switching distros is probably much easier then debugging a network floppy pcmcia install.

lost it,

Same thing as way above, hard restart pcmcia, as root, with the command:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

and then post the last few lines or so from the command:

dmesg

This will give us an idea of what went kablooey, pcmcia or the card. Also, what's the make and model of the laptop in question?

Cheers,

Finegan

dsmesg result

Linux Kernel card services 3.1.22
options [pci] [cardbus][pm]
ds: no socket drivers loaded
unloading Kernel card services

It is a toshiba 530cdt

card is a 3com 3c589d-tp

lsmod mentions nothing about pcmcia or pci

lspci

host bridge toshiba americ.. info systems 601 (rev26)
vga & USB (probably not interesting for this problem)

brett

Its not recognizing the pcmcia bus at all, so I took a look at linux-latop.net and then wandered through google a bit and it seems that the pcmcia bus on the tecra is a little proprietary and one of the two BIOS modes will work, cardbus or PCIC, but different sites argued different ones, and it differed still between in-kernel pcmcia like you have and old pcmcia-cs, so basically:

Go into BIOS and flip the mode, see if that works. Here's the most explanative site I found:

http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/lin...10.html#pcmcia

Don't sweat the goop at the bottom, that's talking about pcmcia-cs IRQ assignments, which shouldn't apply in this case with yenta.

Cheers,

Finegan

tried switching that configuration already..
I noticed in the comments in the pcmcia file, comments that say things like, PCMIA will not start up unless it is configured.
So is that a clue

Related, mr/mrs lostit - the fact that you have no sound is unrelated to your pcmci setup - pcmcia and sound are not related (unless you run an audigy boaro or something similar off pcmcia - which I doubht as the Tecras got n-board sound systems).. Did you isntall the pcmcia_cs package?

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I had worked that out for myself..(suspect that thís is DMA or IRQ conflct, but this is not the priority at present).
STill have the Pcmcia problem, I suspect there is something funny about this part but having not worked with this part of the system myself I thought I would ask for some help ..
Does the insertion routine use the system beep or something else to signal a card is detected. I hear no sound on insertion or removal.
The network card is detected at the beginning of the installation process as evidenced by the indicator on the network adaptor, but as soon as the system reboots all connection is lost.
I originall tacked into this thread as it seemed like we were having simalar problems and thought that the resolution may be simialar.. is this not the case



:confused: :newbie:

losit