PCMCIA card is not working

mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287

I have made a SLIGHT bit of progress here...

I also have this problem under a Compaq Laptop, with what appears to be the same network card. I have tried and tried, and nothing is working. The 3com card that we both have is a 32bit CardBus card. I had an extra 32bit card, to which I have the same results.

I found an older 16bit card and decided to try it. It works perfectly. cardmgr works as it should with no lockups. I also can connect to my network with no problems...

The question is: What is the difference between the kernel sources on the install CD and the new gentoo-2.4.19-r1 (or standard linux-2.4.19-r1, i have tried both) sources when it comes to 32bt cardbus support?

Cr0t · l33t Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 944 Location: USA

thX guys... I had the same problem but now it's working great

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mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287

mb · Guru Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 355 Location: Hessen | .de

roman · n00b Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 17

Hallo,

i had the same problems, so I switch off all PCMCIA related stuff in kernel
end emerged pcmcia-cs. Now all works, only that I spend
4 hours to search in forums here and recompilling kernel..
Anyway, do anybody know, WHY THE KERNEL PCMCIA MODULES ARE NOT WORKING?????

Roman.

mingnut · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 11 Location: Surburbiton

Hi,
I have just found this thread and since I am currently in the same boat as some of you with my Netgear card, this is what I am planning on doing:

I have disabled the PCMCIA support in the kernel and have chosen to emerge the pcmcia-cs package. Oddly enough, I have already done this, when I realised that the pcmcia start-up file in /etc/init.d was missing during the installation phase. I am currently re-compiling my kernel and seeing if I can just use the pcmcia-cs package.
Has anyone tried using the standard "vanilla" kernel with PCMCIA support enabled to see if that kernel works instead ? If my above plan fails, I might try this.
I will update this thread, if this works.
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Gentoo slaptop: P4 2.53, 512 MB DDR2100, 40 GB, GeForce 4 Go 64 MB, Realtek 8139 10/100 NIC.

mingnut · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 11 Location: Surburbiton

Ok, I seemingly have my network card running. But I reckon for everybody else, your mileage may vary.
I compiled PCMCIA support into the gentoo-optimised kernel. And then I loaded the standard tulip driver (modprobe tulip) into the kernel. I was then able to do a "dhcpcd eth0" to get an IP address.
I hope this bit of information helps somebody.
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Gentoo slaptop: P4 2.53, 512 MB DDR2100, 40 GB, GeForce 4 Go 64 MB, Realtek 8139 10/100 NIC.

mdarl · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1

I too had a problem with cardmgr locking up the system using the kernel( 2.4.20 ) PCMCIA drivers. The card in question was a Linksys 10-100MBit/56K modem combo card. Somewhere I came across information saying you should try compiling into the kernel 'ISA bus support' and 'ISA Plug and Play support' when using PCMCIA.

It solved my problems.