Orinoco Gold problems

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zzzero · Post by **zzzero** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:43 am

Im not sure exactly what the problem is. I am running a Compaq Presario 700. I was able to set up my card with hardly any effort when i installed using 2004.2 and 2.6.7 kernel. I decided to upgrade harddrives so i installed 2004.3 and 2.6.9-r9. During the second install it took alot of work to get the card working. After the install it isnt recoginsing the card. I think it also isnt recognising the pcmcia. I enabled pcmcia in the kernel. But I am just confused at why this isnt working. If anyone could help that would be great.

genstef · Post by **genstef** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:44 am

Can you please give us a bit more information? Like what you try do exactly, where it fails, where you do not know what to do next ...

zzzero · Post by **zzzero** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:37 am

ok when i boot the computer even when the card is in the slot it goes through the normal stuff until almost the very end when it says
* Starting pcmcia...
cardmgr[6034]: no sockets found!
* cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA
* modules built or compiled into the kernel [!!]

* Bringing eth1 up (192.168.1.100) . . .
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCDIFBRDADDR: No such device
eth1: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device [!!]

then it continues to finish booting. Ive recompiled the kernel a few times making sure that i enabled pcmcia. In the live cd i boot with "gentoo dopcmcia" but it dosent authenticate the connection. Then i do net-setup eth1 and i've tried all the different ways of configureing the card, but i still cant get it to work. Mabie there is a simple step that i have forgetten.

aviator08 · Post by **aviator08** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 1:29 am

I have a similar problem with PCMCIA support with 2004.3 and 2.6.x kernel. I had support switched on in the kernel, linking in the external PCMCIA module wouldn't work (tells me the kernel has bult-in support). Yet everytime I boot the box it tells be cardmgr can't start because there's no support blah blah blah.

zzzero · Post by **zzzero** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 3:55 am

Thats exactly the problem but i cant figure out how to fix it

aviator08 · Post by **aviator08** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:53 am

Waiting for more knowledgable people...

zzzero · Post by **zzzero** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:43 am

IS THERE SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT KNOWS HOW TO SETUP PCMCIA?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

genstef · Post by **genstef** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:13 am

* cardmgr failed to start. Make sure that you have PCMCIA
* modules built or compiled into the kernel [!!]

PLease do that. It is somewhere in "make menuconfig"

aviator08 · Post by **aviator08** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:57 am

Hi,

Yeah, I checked menuconfig and the PCMCIA option is enabled. There's a bunch of stuff under it (e.g. debugging) that aren't. Will that make a difference?

zzzero · Post by **zzzero** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:34 am

ive tried many combonations of PCMCIA, and yes it is enabled. That would be way to simple. but then agin it must be a simple mistake that im making or there would be more things on the fourms about this.

zzzero · Post by **zzzero** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:46 pm

OK i got it figured out. Or at least i got it to work. you have to have these enabled in the kernel.

Bus Options...
PCMCIA/CardBus Support...
<*> PCMCIA/Card Bus Support
<*> CardBus yenta - compatible bridge support
<*> i82365 Compatible Support

that should be all of it. But i did enable more but those should be the ones.

aviator08 · Post by **aviator08** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:08 am

Thanks much. I'll try that.