Peter Coppens wrote:
All,
I have installed the 'latest stable' Debian version on an (old) Dell
laptop Cpi D300XT.
The initial install was done with the laptop in a docking station and
using the network adaptor that comes with that docking station.
Everything went fine.
Later I removed the laptop from the docking station and tried to enable
a PCMCIA Xircom CBEM56G network/modem card.
That is giving me a headache.
The boot log contains
...
Mon Sep 19 13:11:28 2005: Setting up networking...done.
Mon Sep 19 13:11:29 2005: Starting hotplug subsystem:
Mon Sep 19 13:11:29 2005: pci
Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: usb-uhci: already loaded
Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: insmod:
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci.o: init_module:
No such device
Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: You may find more information in syslog
or the output from dmesg
Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: insmod:
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci.o: insmod uhci
failed
Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: uhci: can't be loaded
Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: missing kernel or user mode driver uhci
Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: yenta_socket: already loaded
Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: neofb: ignoring pci display module
Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: pci [success]
Mon Sep 19 13:11:31 2005: usb
Mon Sep 19 13:11:35 2005: usbcore: already loaded
Mon Sep 19 13:11:35 2005: usbcore: already loaded
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: usb [success]
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: isapnp
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: isapnp [success]
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: ide
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: ide [success]
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: input
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: input [failed]
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: scsi
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: scsi [success]
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: done.
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: Configuring network interfaces...Internet
Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The
Internet Software Consortium.
Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005: All rights reserved.
Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005:
Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005: Please contribute if you find this software
useful.
Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005:
Mon Sep 19 13:11:39 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No
such device
Mon Sep 19 13:11:40 2005: Bind socket to interface: No such device
Mon Sep 19 13:11:40 2005: exiting.
Mon Sep 19 13:11:40 2005: Failed to bring up eth0.
Mon Sep 19 13:11:40 2005: done.
...
After booting the card seems to be there (cardctl info shows it), but
the network is not.
If after booting I execute ifup -a it is enabled and the network works
fine.
I have tried to follow the procedure in
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#fr67
(10.10.2 Triggering network configuration - hotplug) but that does not
help me (same problem).
Anyone any thoughts or pointers to documentation to help me out with
this,
Thanks,
Peter
If you have cardctl then I assume you are running pcmcia-cs. It's not clear
to me why you would need both that and hotplug, because it seems that their
functions overlap (although hotplug is listed in the "recommended" section
of pcmcia-cs). Here is a link I found that supports this theory:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2003/07/msg00234.html
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