Greetings: I am trying to get LTSP to run on some old NEC laptops with Xircom REM56g-100 pcmcia cards.
I did this using (primarily) the instructions found at http://www.k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Technical:Booting:Laptop I was able to get this setup to work with a different pcmcia card. The sticking point seems to be the Xircom card. After a great deal of googling and some experimentation I have come to the conclusion that the problem is that 1) the Xircom is a 16-bit card and 2) post 2.6.13 kernels have a different way of dealing with pcmcia cards that is unfriendly to some 16bit cards. If I'm wrong, please someone tell me. The immediate problem seems to be that I can't load a needed kernel module, specifically i82365. When I try 'modprobe i82365' I get something like this: FATAL: Error inserting i82365 (/lib/modules/2.6.15-28-386/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.ko): no such device I also got this error with the same card on a standalone Xubuntu installation. (Actually, the error shown above is from Xubuntu, but the error from the LTSP client was basically the same.) I believe the problem is that I need to specify the memory mapping in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. Unfortunately I don't know how to figure out what the correct maping is. Is there some way to figure out the correct memory mapping for this card. Previously Ben Green had suggested that I modrobe in this order: modprobe pcmcia_core modprobe i82365 modprobe yenta_socket modprobe ds modprobe xirc2ps_cs modprobe xircom_cb ...however, this does not seem to help. I always get a 'no such device' error when I attempt to modprobe i82365. Ben: what kernel were you using? Was it pre 2.6.13? I am using v6 of K12LTSP as my base, and this uses 2.6.18. Also, you previously offered to send me the complete set of modules and initramfs; I think I'd like to accept your kind offer. Thanks, Jeff LePage Free Horizon Montessori Golden CO, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net