[BL] Network troubles

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Thu Apr 24 06:53:35 EDT 2008


> Please try to set your email program to send only plain text and not a
> second copy in HTML.

Sorry, I wasn't aware that I had.

> I'm sorry about posting so soon, but I've sorted out my last problem and
now
> have a new problem:
>
> BL won't detect my Xircom IIps PS-CE2-10 network card.  I had it a few
> minutes ago, but I was forced to install BL and I lost my files (my fault
> completely, I should have known better).

> I don't follow - the card was detected by BL until you reinstalled?

No, I had the card working in a previous installation of BL, after changing
some files around.  I need help figuring out how to change them again.

> This VADEM adaptor may be your problem.  It sounds like something that was
> added to your computer plugged into an ISA slot, and one part of it fits
> into an expansion bay in front, and you put the PCMCIA card into it.
> Does the adaptor have 2 sockets?

> We had a couple of these (1 socket each) that I got working with serial
> PCMCIA cards but nothing else.  At the time we had no use for them (we had
> regular ISA and PCI modems and network cards and we never expected to be
> using wireless cards).  Maybe you need an additional driver for it?  When
> it works with tomsrtbt, what does lsmod tell you?  (Post the list of
> modules).

The adapter is 1 slot.  It's a laptop, so I don't have any ISA slots.

lsmod on tomsrbt says that xirc2ps_cs, ds, i82356, and pcmcia_core are
loaded.

I did a clean install, so all the tomsrbt files are gone, except for the
xirc2ps_cs driver and the appropriate lines in /etc/pcmcia/config.

Thanks
Meyer

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:14 AM, <baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

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> Please try to set your email program to send only plain text and not a
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> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
> > I'm sorry about posting so soon, but I've sorted out my last problem and
> now
> > have a new problem:
> >
> > BL won't detect my Xircom IIps PS-CE2-10 network card.  I had it a few
> > minutes ago, but I was forced to install BL and I lost my files (my
> fault
> > completely, I should have known better).
>
> I don't follow - the card was detected by BL until you reinstalled?
>
> To add an unknown PCMCIA card you should only need to fetch the module and
> add two sections to /etc/pcmcia/config - one for the card and one for the
> device if it is not already there (xirc2ps_cs is not).  BL is not as
> complicated or automated as other linuxes.
>
> Dont' change resolv.conf or you won't be able to access websites.
>
> >
> > I copied some files over from Tomsrbt, which detects my network card and
> > connects to the network automatically.  The files were /etc/hosts,
> > /etc/host.conf, /etc/rc.pcmcia, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/pcmcia/conf,
> > /etc/pcmcia/config.opts, /etc/pcmcia/network, /etc/pcmcia/network.opts,
> amd
> > /etc/pcmcia/shared (I know not all of those are originaly included in
> BL,
> > but they were needed by the Tomsrbt files).  Here's the output from
> > /etc/pcmcia/start: (I couldn't get all of it, but this is most of it.  A
> bit
> > is cut off from the top)
> >
> >   Vadem VG-469 rev 00 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00
> >        host opts [0]: none
> >        host opts [1]: none
>
> This VADEM adaptor may be your problem.  It sounds like something that was
> added to your computer plugged into an ISA slot, and one part of it fits
> into an expansion bay in front, and you put the PCMCIA card into it.
> Does the adaptor have 2 sockets?
>
> We had a couple of these (1 socket each) that I got working with serial
> PCMCIA cards but nothing else.  At the time we had no use for them (we had
> regular ISA and PCI modems and network cards and we never expected to be
> using wireless cards).  Maybe you need an additional driver for it?  When
> it works with tomsrtbt, what does lsmod tell you?  (Post the list of
> modules).
>
> >        ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,15 status change on irq 15
> The adaptor is using IRQ 15.
>
> > Using /lib/modules/2.2.26/pcmcia/ds.o
> > Apr 23 16:40:17 cardmgr[35]: starting, version is 3.1.16
> > Apr 23 16:40:17 cardmgr[35]: watching 2 sockets
> > Apr 23 16:40:17 cardmgr[35]: Card Services release does not match
> > Apr 23 16:40:17 cardmgr[35]: initializing socket 1
> > cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: clean.
> > Apr 23 16:40:17 cardmgr[35]: socket 1: Xircom IIps Ethernet
> It found the card in socket 1.
>
> > Apr 23 16:40:17 cardmgr[35]: excuting: ' insmod
> > /lib/modules/2.2.26/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.o'
> > xirc2ps_cs.c 1.31 1998/12/09 19:32:55 (dd9jn+kvh)
> > xirc2ps_cs: Card Services release does not match!
> > Apr 23 16:40:17 cardmgr[35]: + Using
> /lib/modules/2.2.26/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.o
> > Apr 23 16:40:17 cardmgr[35]: + insmod: init_modules: xirc2ps_cs: Device
> or
> > resource busy
>
> The module does not like this card?  What modules does tomsrtbt insert
> when it works with the card?  lsmod
>
> > Apr 23 16:40:17 cardmgr[35]: insmod exited with status 1
> > Apr 23 16:40:17 cardmgr[35]: executing: 'modprobe xirc2ps_cs'
> > Apr 23 16:40:18 cardmgr[35]: get dev info on socket 1 failed: Try again
> Maybe cardmgr cannot handle this adaptor?
>
> > Apr 23 16:40:18 cardmgr[35]: exiting
> >
> > Then udhcpc says....
> >
> > info, udhcpc (v0.9.9-pre) started
> > error, SIOCGIFINDEX failed!: No such device
> >
> > Which I assume means that it doesn't see the network card (right?).
> It saw a card in the slot but seems not to have loaded a driver for it.
> Sindi
>
> > Thanks,
> > Meyer
> >
>
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