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["HenRi KiRya" <henry AT cmf.co.ug>]

I need to use a realtek cardbus pcmcia net card ( cnf401 fast ehternet
cardbus adaptor)
its not included in the pcmcia.tgz package from slackware
the card came with an rtl8139.c file
what would be the best way forward
- seek to comile a driver on basic linux ( wouldnt that require kernel
source files ?)
- plug in another higher kernel ( wouldnt that raise other issues of
dependancies and libraries?)

Thanks
H.Kirya


-----Original Message-----
From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:12 AM
Subject: Re: [BL] PCMCIA network and modem ERROR messages


>On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Matt Smed wrote:
>>
>> As a result of this list and various help files on the Internet, I have
>> successfully configured a free laptop that I got from a friend.
>>
>> I have one small problem, though.  When initializing any card using
>> "rc.pcmcia start" I get some error messages and cannot get the cards to
>> work.  The PCIC is Cirrus PD6710.
>>
>> I tried several cards in the computer, and none seemed to work.
>>
>> Here are the error messages from 3 such cards:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>> -2- 3com Etherlink III Lan+33.6 Modem PC Card
>>
>> cardmgr[50]: Socket 0: 3Com 3c562/3c563 Ethernet/Modem
>> cardmgr[50]: executing: 'modprobe 3c589_cs'
>> cardmgr[50]: executing: 'modprobe serial_cs'
>> eth0: 3com 3c562, io 0x200, irq 3, hw_addr 00:60:97:EC:DC:8F
>> 8k FIFO split 5:3 Rx:Tx, auto xcvr
>> tty01 at 0x0100 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>> cardmgr[50]: executing: './network start eth0'
>> cardmgr[50]: + ./network: cat: command not found
>> cardmgr[50]: executing: './serial start ttyS1'
>> cardmgr[50]: + ./serial: cat: command not found
>> cardmgr[50]: + ./serial: expr: command not found
>> cardmgr[50]: + ./serial: uname: command not found
>>
>><snip>
>> If any one is familiar with configuring pcmcia, please feel free to let
>> me know how I should go about getting these cards to work.  I would
>> especially like to be able to use the modem, as I have free dial-up
>> access, and I want to try out the text-only browsers.
>>
>It's a bit of a challenge to get PCMCIA stuff working in BL, partly owing
>to the fact that it's a stripped down version using utils that don't have
>all the functionality of their fuller counterparts.  Busybox - BL's
>counterpart to bash - for example. doesn't have certain commands.  Others
>it does have (like cat), but they are located in the busybox dir rather
>than the more typical place (/sbin?) in which they're found on fuller
>systems.  Part of your problem is precisely this.  You have the "cat"
>command on your computer, it's just not in a place where the util that
>needs it can find it.  I got around certain such problems by symlinking
>(creating a link to the real binary in the spot where the util that needed
>it was looking).  Other commands - like, I think, uname and expr are just
>not present in busybox.  Try "which cat" to find out where cat is located
>- or any other bash command.  If it's not present, you won't be told a
>location.  Anyway, to resolve at least some of the missing commands needed
>by the pcmcia script, I had to install an additional package - tcpip1.tgz,
>I believe.  Installing that package and doing the symlinking to commands
>that were really present on my system but could not be found, was what
>finally got my pcmcia NIC working (I still had to do ifconfig, supply the
>gateway address and so forth too, but all the fucntionality was at least
>there after symlinking and installing the tcpip package).  I think one
>command still ends up missing, but it is not one critical to networking
>performance and functionality.  I hope this gives you enough to make some
>progress.  It's actually been a few months since I got pcmcia networking
>going on my BL2 laptop, and some of the details have faded.  If you need
>more info, I might be able to dredge up some more recollections or maybe
>go through my system settings to help clarify.
>
>James
>
>PS It looks like you're closest to getting things working with the 3Com
>card - I'd stick with it.
>
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