On Mar 09, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > I'm trying to install Debian woody using a Net_inst CD from early february. > The CD works fine on my desktop, however it can't seem to detect my PCMCIA > bus when I try to detect it on my Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop. This is very > bad news, since I can't use my Linksys Cardbus NIC until I have PCMCIA > working, of course. :-) > usually I would just cheat and use PLIP networking over a parallel cable, but thats because my floppy drive is mangled.....one day I will fix it :)
> I know both the system and the NIC are Linux compatible, and work well with
> any pcmcia-cs release newer than about February of 2001. Most recently, my
> system was running Mandrake Linux 8.1 without any problems.
>
> Any ideas on what parameters or such that I need to feed to the installer's
> PCMCIA setup to get the bus going?
>
well my money is on you needing to edit /etc/pcmcia/config
If you edit it you will notice just a list of possible PCMCIA cards and a
bunch of PCI id's. Also with them is which driver to use with which PCMCIA
card. I bet you need to use the "tulip_cb" driver. When you put in your
PCMCIA card I assume it does the normal high pitch beep (acknowledging
something was put in the socket) followed immediently with a low pitch beep
which indicates that it was set up properly. What you need to do it look
through the logs of the pcmcia-cs output (/var/log/messages should have it
in) and extract the ID codes. Add an entry in your /etc/pcmcia/config which
maps a certain driver to that PCMCIA card ID and see what happens.
This is all I can think of at the moment :)
have fun and good luck
Alex
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