On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 01:28:23AM +0000, Deadly Earnest wrote: > I thought that I'd found my problem there over the last few days but false > hope > I'm afraid. I found that you need block devices in the kernel for ext3 so > though > that was it. No joy. > > I'm coming at this from two sides at present. Like I say installed LFS > (6.3) from > the LFS Live CD and I've got it all working but I can't get the system to > power > down or recognise the PCMCIA Wifi Oranoco card. It's on an old Dell Latitude > CPt. The Config file that I made from scratch will boot but does no recognise > the Card and only prints "pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1" That's all > I get. I know from using the card in other linux computers that the > driver I want > is Orinoco_cs but I've included that in my config. > > The Kernel that I'm using and the kernel that is in /usr/src of the live cd > are > both 2.6.22.5. If I use the .config from the liveCD there's a kernel > panic as it can't > mount the root file system. Thought Block devices would solve that but no such > luck. I've got ext3 built into the kernel not as a module but built > in. Can't see > any mention of SquashFS? > _please_ don't top post. The fact you are using a 'silly' identity, or gmail, doesn't mean you should avoid normal courtesies ;-) Thanks.
Orinoco I know nothing about. The differences between the Live CD booting and your own system booting from disk probably include: 1. The Live CD certainly isn't on ext3. It might be using squashfs, or iso9660, or some other random fs - none of those are relevant to your boot. I assume you are intending to use ext3 for your '/', but have you checked that ? (e.g. maybe you forgot the journal and it's really ext2). 2. The CD has to boot from a CD : 99% of the time they are attached to IDE controllers. Your fresh build has to boot from whatever IDE/SATA drive is in your machine. For IDE the CD probably covers most, or all, of the options but for SATA you need to pick all the right selection(s) and build them in. So, if you are using a SATA disk, what sort of controller is it on ? Did you specify it as /dev/sdaX in the fstab ? (some of the earlier SATA drivers used to pretend to be hd instead of sd, I think). Have you selected CONFIG_SCSI, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD ? And CONFIG_ATA plus a suitable driver ? I'm tempted to suggest that your original .config (orinoco not working, unable to power down) might be a better place to start because at least it boots. Probably, diffing the two configs will show you something interesting (and a _lot_ of noise :-( ). Powering down needs either acpi or apm on x86 - I've no idea how recent your box is, older machines have had lots of problems with acpi over the years, and I think there is a config option to limit acpi to very-recent machines (by the date of the bios). Recent machines probably should NOT have apm selected. A quick google/linux for orinoco suggests they use cardbus cards - (those old things that plug into the side of a notebook) - did you build pcmciautils (apparently, it replaces pcmcia-cs for 2.6 kernels) ? As I said, I've no idea if you need that, but missing userspace helper applications will certainly cause things to not work. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
