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


                                                      
                                                      
          

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