Hello: I've been trying to get working my PCMCIA Ethernet card under Mandrake 6.1 and RedHat 6.1, but it doesnt work (kernels 2.2.11 and 2.2.12). I have followed the instructions of various pages at linux-on-laptops pages (recompiling, updating, making available only irq 9...) and still having problems. Tailing the sys messages it get this: Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost cardmgr[317]: initializing socket 0 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost cardmgr[317]: socket 0: SVEC 10/100 Fast Ethernet Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost cardmgr[317]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.11-2mdk/pcmcia/cb_enabler.o' Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost cardmgr[317]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.11-2mdk/pcmcia/tulip_cb.o' Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 01946000, %cr3 = 01946000 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: *pde = 00000000 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: CPU: 0 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+31488/67432260] Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 81bbf360 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 81fc5000 ebp: 821c3a20 esp: 81877aa4 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: Process cardmgr (pid: 317, process nr: 12, stackpage=81877000) Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: Stack: 821c3a20 821c3a20 00000000 00000046 84056cca 821c3a20 00000000 00000000 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: 821c3b40 821c3a20 84078760 802375e0 840782e0 0000002d 821c3a20 00000000 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: 821c3b40 00000000 84078760 81fc5000 83001b15 0000001b 818779e0 00040104 Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: Call Trace: [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+34634/67429114] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+172512/67291236] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+171360/67292388] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+172512/67291236] [merge_segments+36/608] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+171953/67291795] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+171788/67291960] Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+29199/67434549] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+171788/67291960] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+94233/67369515] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+96573/67367175] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+162456/67301292] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+34375/67429373] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+170906/67292842] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+172516/67291232] Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+171788/67291960] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+34822/67428926] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+172340/67291408] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+126788/67336960] [fat:fat_esc2uni_Rdf8b5a1e+129306/67334442] [ide_wait_stat+134/240] [do_rw_disk+704/752] [end_buffer_io_sync+41/44] Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: [merge_segments+36/608] [do_munmap+764/936] [do_8259A_IRQ+129/208] [do_mmap+1016/1148] [schedule+376/664] [iput+191/544] [dput+227/336] [release+253/280] Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: [sys_ioctl+441/464] [system_call+52/56] Nov 3 21:23:16 localhost kernel: Code: 8b 4e 04 f6 c1 05 75 0e 66 83 7e 0a 00 74 11 8b 46 0c a8 05 Whats wrong? It seems that under RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36) the card is detected with no problems (but i havent seen whether it works connected to a network). Are there any steps I should follow to get the config on RH 5.2 and making it available on 6.1? It's a kernel bug? Thanks, ----------------------------------------- V�ctor R. Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Divisi�n de Comunicaciones Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria -----------------------------------------
