According to greg hoover: While burning my CPU.
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> I recompiled my kernel for the first time, and now I am having
> problems with my PCMCIA slots. Specifically with my ethernet card (just
> the ethernet card, the PCMCIA modem still works fine).
> Previously it ran fine. Now when cardmgr tries to load 8390.o, it fails
> with a bunch of unresolved symbols.
The unresolved symbols are produced because normaly speaking 8390.o is a
dependancy of whatever network card driver you have.
Take for example the smc series drivers, smc-8003 smc-ultra etc.
When one does 'modprobe smc-ultra' then the module smc-ultra gets loaded
alomg side of 8390.o, when you try to load just the 8390.o you will get the
unrsolved symbols effect.
I am presuming your system does 'depmod -a' during the boot process.
So all that should be needed is; {example for a smc-ultra card};;
'modprobe smc-ultra'
which will show the following with the command 'lsmod'
smc-ultra 4024 1 (autoclean)
8390 6244 0 (autoclean) [smc-ultra]
Check files such as /etc/conf.modules define eth0 as follows.
alias eth0 smc-ultra
take a look at;
/lib/modules/2.x.x/modules.dep
It should have something like the following;
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/net/smc-ultra.o: /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/net/8390.o
> The system gives one high-pitched
> beep, followed by a low pitched beep. I checked the PCMCIA howto at
> sunsite, and it says that when this happens, it means the card that's
> trying to load is having issues with your kernel. In regards to network
> cards, it says that CONFIG_INET must be enabled. I selected internet
> enabled in xconfig, and checked the .config file, and CONFIG_INET is set
> to yes. I'm basically stumped at this point, so any help would be great.
> Thanks
I would imagen you could interpret the beeps as, a kernel message because of
the dependancy problem stated above.
Hope this helps.
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> -greg olszewski
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Regards Richard.
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