Finally success

credmp · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:32 am Post subject: Finally success

Hey all,

After a lot of trying and following the pcmcia-cs howto post I thought I had given up on gentoo on my laptop (Latitude CPx with a 3com 575 pcmcia network card).

This because after installing gentoo itself and doing to pcmcia-cs thing it would just hang at 'watching 2 sockets'. After I installed a base redhat distro on the laptop I noticed that instead of a 3c575_cb module it had loaded the 3c59x module. So... all excited I rebooted with the CD again, did the base install again and put the pcmcia stuff in the kernel as apposed to pcmcia-cs.

now it all works!!!... just put 3c59x in my modules.autoload and have pcmcia support compiled into the kernel.

Sweet smell of success...

-- Arjen

masseya · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 7:47 pm Post subject:

Congratulations on your success! Also, that's a nifty avatar.

Now I have a few questions for you. What section of your kernel config was your driver in? Was that supposed to be a pcmcia network card driver or does it function as dual purpose? Do you have to have your network card in when you boot to get support for it in the kernel or can you insert it at any time as you could with a "blank" kernel and pcmcia-cs emerged?

If you don't know the answers, that's cool. These are all things that I'm wondering in another post and I just thought that you might know the answers.

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delta407 · Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:12 pm Post subject:

Moving to Praise forum.
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credmp · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 1:29 pm Post subject:

First you need to enable PCMCIA support in General Setup. Then I went to network devices and made modular all 3com cards in the 10/100 ethernet section and under the PCMCIA network devices.

Some insmod'ding and after finding the right one added it to modules.autoload.

Grtz

Arjen