Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

> Vincent Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > OK, loaded the latest greatest, and network wouldn't start.  Does not
> > appear to be turning the PCMCIA network controller, so I restarted the PCMCIA
> > services.  Here's the messages:
> >
> > [root@localhost rc3.d]# ./S09pcmcia reload
> > Shutting down PCMCIA services:.
> > Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already
> > exists
> > insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.7-1mdk/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o*: No such file or
> > directory
> > /lib/modules/2.4.7-1mdk/pcmcia/ds.o.gz: init_module: Operation not permitted
> > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> > invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> >  cardmgr.
> > [root@localhost rc3.d]#
> >
> > so??? what's a yenta socket?
>
> AFAIK:
>
> There lacked for a long time pcmcia drivers in the Linux kernel to make a
> pcmcia subsystem work; "pcmcia-cs" is essentially made of drivers and a
> resident daemon that was hacked together because the kernel didn't provide
> pcmcia drivers.
>
> Since 2.4, there is official Linux kernel support for pcmcia, and in this
> implementation, the main Intel pcmcia driver is called "yenta_socket"; but
> since our kernel team found it was still way too much bugged, we still use
> "pcmcia-cs". So you won't find any "yenta_socket" driver with a mandrake
> kernel.

So, back to the original question.....   How do we get the PCMCIA bus working
with 2.4.7-1mdk?



>
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