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Mirrorball
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:59 am Post subject: PCMCIA problems |
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Hi,
I'm new to Linux but not exactly clueless. I've been using RedHat Linux for more than a year but I'd like to try Gentoo (Portage sounds so nice).
After a couple of days I figured out how to make my PCMCIA card work during installation so that I could setup my networking. I load the modules pcmcia_core, i82365, ds, orinoco_cs, everything works and so on... I don't know if I'm configuring the kernel right, I never did it before. It is so complicated... 
After installation when the system reboots, it freezes after loading the PCMCIA modules.
As I said, I'm running RedHat Linux and it used to freeze my system too until I learned to edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and set a memory window that only allowed one of my two sockets to be used. Mandrake 8.0 works on my computer without my having to edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts but Mandrake 8.1 doesn't...
I'd like to know what's the explanation for this, what's done in a different way when it works and when it doesn't. Does anyone know? Do you need more info about my computer, card, Cardbus Controller etc? |
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christsong84
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| I had the same problem for ages...I finally fixed is by removing the 0x800-0x8ff range from /etc/pcmcia/config.opts...it was specific to Dell Laptops I think tho, so I don't know if this helps or not. What hardware are you running? |
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Mirrorball
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| No, I don't think it helps. My computer is an IBM desktop, Pentium III 750 MHz, 512Mb RAM, old but it's enough for what I do (I don't play games). |
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Mirrorball
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:48 am Post subject: |
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| Just in case this is useful for someone: when I don't enable PCMCIA support in the kernel my computer doesn't freeze. It's when I enable PCMCIA support that things don't work. |
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antik
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| Mirrorball wrote: | | Just in case this is useful for someone: when I don't enable PCMCIA support in the kernel my computer doesn't freeze. It's when I enable PCMCIA support that things don't work. |
For pcmcia you have to uncheck pcmcia support in kernel. Compile it and "emerge pcmcia-cs". If you already emerged pcmcia-cs before compilation you have to reemerge it again.  Sounds strange but for pcmcia support you do not need pcmcia support in kernel 
Without network it looks like this:
| Code: | ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/pcmcia-cs/pcmcia-cs-3.2.4.ebuild unpack
ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/pcmcia-cs/pcmcia-cs-3.2.4.ebuild compile install qmerge |
pcmcia-cs compiles all pcmcia drivers for you.
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