Forwarded from a local mail list. Is the PCMCIA issue resolved in cooker? Hoyt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:54 AM Subject: [twuug] PCMCIA Network Card and Mandrake 7.1 > I've installed Mandrake 7.1 on one of my Dell Latitude CP laptops at work. > During install, the network card (3Com 3C574-TX) is found. However, when the > install comes to do the network setup, it ignores the card and presents a > list of cards for desktop computers. The 3C574 is not listed. > > No big deal, I think. I'll just install it after the install finishes and I > reboot. So I reboot and login as root. Open an X-term and do lsmod. The > module (3c574_cs) is listed as unused. Fine. Open DrakConf and open Network > Configuration. Choose Basic host information. Enter hostname > (latitude.bshsi.com). > > Under Apadter 1, select DHCP for config mode, enable, net device as eth0. > The drop down box for kernel module doesn't show the 3c574_cs module so I > just input it manually. Since I'm using DHCP I don't kill in any IP address > information. > > Accept parameters and quit. Activate the changes. Exit DrakConf. Open X-term > and type ifconfig eth0 up. Then do ifconfig and eth0 shows, but no card is > not bound. > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:EA:1C:8F > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 ..... and so forth and so on > Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 > > INT WTF? Interrupt 3? That's a comm port interrupt. Check /etc/conf.modules. > Shows alias eth0 3c574_cs. Okay, that's good. I'll just reboot. Reboot. > > Eth0 tries to initialise before the pcmcia module is loaded. Initialisation > of eth0 fails. (It tries to load the pcmcia module, but gets Device or > Resource busy). Later the pcmcia module is successfully loaded and the card > is actualised since the light comes on. I also do an lsmod and the 3c574_cs > module is loaded. Eth0 is not initialised. > > But if I do an ifconfig eth0 up, I still get nothing! lsmod also shows: > > 3c574_cs 10100 0 (unused) > ds 6412 2 [3c574_cs] - what > is this module? I've no idea what this is. > pcmcia_core 45408 0 [3c574_cs ds i82365] > > > Everything seems to be correct except it doesn't work! Anyone have any > ideas? I've used this same laptop and card with OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 and > it works without problems. What's getting screwed up here? Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Don >
