It's possible that the yenta socket module isn't getting removed when
you restart pcmcia.  Pull the card stop pcmcia then rmmod yenta_socket. 
The other possiblity is that the module you use for your card only works
with yenta (I wonder if this naming has anything to do with the Yiddish
word?) 

James


On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 13:18, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> On Monday 17 February 2003 03:31 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 11:08, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > > I have never had any use for the yenta_socket driver that most distros
> > > seem to default to.  It screws up my ability to use wireless cards.  I
> > > have found that if I use i82365 instead of yenta, my wireless pcmcia
> > > cards just work.
> [...]
> > Yours will vary but it should be close enough to make sense.  This is
> > the chip that controls your pci to pcmcia bridge.
> >
> > Now cd /usr/share/ldetect-lst and copy pcitable to pcitable.bkp (just in
> > case)
> >
> > vi (or whatever editor you like) pcitable and find your card in the list
> > (in my case I search for PCI1450) Once you find this line/lines, you
> > will see "yenta_socket"  you need to change this to i82365. (Be careful
> > here as it uses tabs not spaces between columns.)  Save this file and
> 
> Thanks!  But...I edited all the appropriate (potential) entries for my 
> pci-pcmcia bridge (O2 Micro) so they read i82365 instead of yenta but when I 
> restart pcmcia, it STILL says it will use yenta instead of i82365.  I ended 
> up replacing every single "yenta_socket" entry with "i82365" in pcitable but 
> when I restart pcmcia I still get yenta!  I ran harddrake and checked it 
> after editing and it indicates i82365 now in place of yenta_socket... Do I 
> have to reboot?  Is there something else I need to do?  My 
> /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file is set to i82365 as well.  Mandrake 9.0 wont give 
> in to my superior judgement here!
> 
> praedor
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
> Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com


Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Reply via email to