It isn't a kernel issue, the PCMCIA is seperate. One trick, if it is a Toshiba, there is often a BIOS setting to have the notebook operate in TCIC mode instead of CardBus mode, if you change that setting to force TCIC then the tomsrtbt pcmcia will work with it. -Tom On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, sungod wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 02:18:05 -0700 > From: sungod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [tomsrtbt] New kernel with cardbus please? > > Hi there... > > If you happen to be working as a satellite communications technician in the heart of >a central american jungle, and your only laptop's IDE controller craps out, what do >you do? > > Why, thank God for tomsrtbt, of course. :) > > Well, it kind of works anyway. I didn't test it thoroughly enough before I left, and >now I discover that the cardbus module doesn't seem to work, so I'm without ethernet. >I have to use a serial connection to my router console, then telnet from the router >to a shell host elsewhere, so using the internet is--shall we say--less than >convenient at this point. > > Here's what happens: > > /usr/lib/modules/pcmcia# insmod pcmcia_core.o > Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.12 > kernel build: 2.0.37 #1 Fri Jun 18 21:40:22 EDT 1999 > options: [pci] [cardbus] > /usr/lib/modules/pcmcia# insmod cardbus.o > kernel_version needed, but can't be found > /usr/lib/modules/pcmcia# > > Also, it's worth noting that any time I do "insmod i82365" (or the default pcmcia >startup script attempts it), my laptop freezes. I'm pretty sure my laptop uses >cardbus though. > > What's the fix? Can somebody recompile the kernel and cardbus module so the >kernel_version isn't needed? > > Bigger favor yet, can somebody pack up a tomsrtbt image for me that uses such a >kernel & module? > > Thanks in advance... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
