[NBLUG/talk] getting pcmcia network to work, debian style

[Bob Blick]

Fixed it. If I modprobe i82365 by itself everything works after that.

Put it in /etc/modules and everything is happy.

I imagine someday all remnants of discover and hotplug and udev will be
obsolete and completely replaced by something sensible. And decent
Debian documentation will be available. :)

Cheerful regards,

Bob


Bob Blick wrote:
> I installed Debian stable on this old 133MHz laptop with 80 meg ram. It
> was the only Linux version with a 2.6 kernel that would successfully
> install and boot afterwards. There's too much ISA bus stuff I guess.
> Anyway, I'm happy enough since I just want something text mode that can
> sit in my network/coat closet and not catch fire.
> 
> The installer did a netinstall after happily configuring my pcmcia
> ethernet card and then left me high and dry after the install.
> 
> What can I do to duplicate the installer's apparently simple
> configuration of pcmcia + networking? Or do I need to painstakingly
> reinvent the wheel?
> 
> When I was doing the install I opened up another console window and
> noted these modules were used by the card. None of them are loaded now
> although they all exist and I can insert them:
> 
> pcmcia
> pcmcia_core
> firmware_class
> i82365
> rsrc_nonstatic
> fmvj18x_cs
> 
> The last one is the actual driver for my Fujitsu ethernet card.
> 
> The package pcmciautils was installed by the installer but apparently
> it's too new to have any good documentation, having replaced pcmcia_cs a
> few years ago.
> 
> No events show up in /var/log/messages when I insert the card, but if I
> modprobe pcmcia and i82365 then I get insert and remove messages.
> Nothing else happens no matter whether I modprobe any or all of the
> other modules. Nothing that identifies the card, so it never gets
> assigned as eth0 either.
> 
> I'd love to find out the right way to go about setting this up but
> Google doesn't give me anything useful. Debian and linux pcmcia and
> laptop docs are written for people who already know the big picture, and
> are maybe more interested than me, or else so out of date as to be a big
> mistake to try to follow.
> 
> I realize I sound a little snippy but I'm in my second day of this.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
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