Just yesterday (Sunday) I used my IBM Thinkpad running MD 8.0 to try
(unsuccessfully) to unlock my desktop system running 8.0 + some cooker stuff
after the game, "Terminus" locked up the desktop HARD. It was working
perfectly at the time, pcmcia and all.
After failing to recover my desktop I cleanly and properly shut down the
laptop. Today (Monday) I start up my laptop and am unable to open any X
sessions. I get messages all over the place about an inability to access
.Xauthority and some other stuff I don't recall, and a message that I may
want to look for detailed info in the XFree86.0.log file (there was nothing
of note there).
I tried reinstalling XFree86-4.0.3 to no avail. Complaints about cpp being
unable to unlink various libs. I tried to upgrade to glibc-2.2.3 and then
XFree86-4.1.0 and get the same multiple complaints about cpp not being able
to unlink (or find in some cases) this or that lib or config, etc. Total
mess. Ultimately, I decided to cut bait and reinstall, this time giving
ReiserFS a try and this brings me, finally, to the point of this whole
message.
I found that when I installed MD 8.0 originally on my laptop, that during the
install it properly detected my 3com pcmcia card and I set up networking
properly. Upon reboot, pcmcia fails every time. It cannot find ANY pcmcia
drivers. I mosey over to /lib/modules/2.4.3-10mdk/pcmcia and see all the
drivers there - all of them gzipped. I tried un-gzipping the ones pcmcia
complained about not finding (ds.o, i82365.o, plus the appropriate 3com
driver) and then ran depmod -a. All seemed OK, there were no errors. I try
restarting pcmcia again and it again complains about no ds.o or i82365.o
modules. They are right there where they are supposed to be...I saw them.
OK, this whole thing happened with the initial install of 8.0 and I ended up
fixing it by compiling my own kernel from source. Upon reboot, pcmcia worked
as it should. Well, after the problems I had with the laptop this morning,
reinstalling MD 8.0, I ran into the problem again. The only way I can seem
to get pcmcia working is to build my own kernel.
Why does this happen? Why is it that 8.0 detects my pcmcia card upon initial
install but then doesn't know what to do with pcmcia after first bootup? Has
anyone else run into this problem? I set the service to run at bootup.
Depmod never produces any pcmcia errors. I would only get errors if I tried
to force the issue by installing ds and i82365 manually.
praedor
