Issues with Netgear FA410 pcmcia

[mtrunnell]

Hello everybody Hopefully this is an easy question.

There seems to be some issues getting my netgear FA410Tx pcmcia NIC up and running. Elsewhere on the web there are links to an "fa_select.c" program that some have found useful in getting this particular NIC to see the network. But when I do this:

# ./fa_select eth0 1

it complains, "ioctl: no such device" And of course, there is no /dev/eth0... because I did something else wrong...?

Look at what cardmgr says when I insert the card:

cardmgr[221]: socket 1: NE2000 Compatible Fast Ethernet
cardmgr[221]: executing: 'modprobe 8390'
cardmgr[221]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
pcnet_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use
cardmgr[221]: get dev info on socket 1 failed: No such device
cardmgr[221]: exiting

strange, eh? Why isn't it loading? For this example, I'll reboot and try again. Note that the NIC is the *only* pc card inserted. So with the card already inserted, here's everything I'm doing after boot:

# insmod pcmcia_core
# insmod i82365
Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r7/pcmcia/i82365.o
Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 for device 00:04.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
TI 1220 rev 02 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:04, mem 0x10000000
host opts [0]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 2/5]
host opts [1]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 11] [lat 168/176] [bus 6/9]
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
ISA irqs (scanned) = 4,7 PCI status changes
# insmod ds
Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r7/pcmcia/ds.o
# cardmgr -f
cardmgr[140]: watching 2 sockets
cardmgr[140]: starting, version is 3.1.33
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean
cardmgr[140]: socket 1: NE2000 Compatible Fast Ethernet
cardmgr[140]: executing: 'modprobe 8390'
cardmgr[140]: executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x130-0x137 0x220-0x22f 0x2f8-0x2ff 0x320-0x327 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x3c0-0x3df 0x3f8-0x3ff 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0138-0x021f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0230-0x02f7: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0300-0x031f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0380-0x0387: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0390-0x03bf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x03f7: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0400-0x04cf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
pcnet_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use
cardmgr[140]: get dev info on socket 1 failed: No such device
cardmgr[140]: exiting
#

Anyone have any ideas? This is the first laptop i've installed linux on, so I have zero experience with PCMCIA modules and cardmgr... so I have no idea what's going on here.

Any help at all is appreciated.

best,
Matt