On Dec 27, 2007 2:12 AM, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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