Re: [gentoo-user] Its not fair! (PCMCIA issue)

[Michael Crute]

Being lazy I would start with the dead simple route. Boot the ubuntu livecd 
check out what driver it loads and if the card works, if all is peachy under 
ubuntu reboot gentoo and modprobe the driver that ubuntu loaded. If all that 
fails then you need to dig deeper into your kernel config. I could make some 
guesses on what options you need there but since I dont have a computer with 
PCMCIA I really cant say for sure.

-Mike

On 8/2/05, Ian K <omega_2_1@×××××.ca> wrote:
>
> HI guys,
> I have resorted to putting Ubuntu on my friend's laptop.
> If you remember, it was an evil Panasonic Toughbook, with
> a Ricoh PCMCIA card slot(?) from hell. If you want a brief
> explanation, read starting from the 1. If you want to skip
> to the problem, goto 2. :)
>
> 1. Well, I tried everything, with a friend of mine on the phone,
> a Gentoo user himself. We couldn't get the driver to detect
> the unknown 3.3 volt Linksys WPC11 v4 card in the PCMCIA slot.
> I had promised over and over to him that we could get the card
> working that day, since all I thought I had to do was a modprobe.
> But no such luck. I had promised him internet, and I would get
> him internet. I decided to resize his Gentoo partitions and install
> Windows (98SE). The resize failed, corrupting his Gentoo install.
> I decided, well, he doesn't have anything on there, so I wiped it
> with fdisk under the 2005.0 livecd and created an empty DOS
> partition table. It said something about this hard drive having
> more 'somethings' (maybe blocks, I cant remember) than the usual
> amount. We had 1222. It said that Windows may not like this.
> I ignored it, and tried booting with a Win98SE disc, which refused
> to install on his computer. Stumped, I dug up a Ubuntu install disc,
> and had him up in under an hour. I was sooooo mad!! I would have
> put Gentoo back on, but the time it takes to install was more than
> we had taht day.
>
> 2. So Ubuntu is up. Also note that I have posted this problem on their
> list, and I have gotten one useless reply. Im asking you guys cause
> there are more of you and I think your smarter. Here is the issue:
>
> When I pop in a standard 3com 589cs card, the computer beeps, and
> beeps again when I take it out. That looked promising. I then put in
> his WAN card, a new Linksys Wireless B Adapter. (WPC11 version 4,
> which uses a Realtek chipset.) I heard nothing when putting it in,
> but heard a beep upon removing it. I checked the dmesg, and got
> a Nobody cared message (IRQ 9, I believe) and a:
> cs: unable to apply power.
>
> He's on Kernel 2.6.Ithink11, 2.6.* for sure. His bridge is a Ricoh
> RL5C475. There is a nice how-to for this bridge --if your on kernel 2.4.
> But it was written before 2.6 came out, I think.. The address is:
>
> http://raw-io.com/pci_802.11b.html
>
> If you dont want to visit the site, I copied the condensed howto here:
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> *Short version*:
>
> 1) compile and install 2.4.x (preferable an alan cox kernel) without
> PCMCIA support but with Wireless LAN support (just Wireless LAN support,
> none of the drivers under that option)
> 2) compile and install latest pcmcia-cs
> 3) compile and install latest wireless-tools
>
> edit your pcmcia options so that your socket driver is i82365 and your
> PCIC_OPTS="irq_mode=0" (use only PCI IRQs)
> reboot
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Now, I dont know what to do. Ubuntu is on the 2.6 kernel.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks guys, I really appreciate the help.
> Ian
>
>
>


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SoftGroup Development Corporation

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