On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 12:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:45:41AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 23:47, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > ds: no socket drivers loaded! (excl.pt. is part of the displayed message) > > > I learned from pcmcia that there are two possible socket drivers: tcic and > > > i82365. > > > I tried insmod on both. Neither would install. > > > > Use modprobe instead of insmod. modprobe will (assuming all else is > > good) pick up depencencies, and insmod will not. This alone will > > prevent a correct driver from loading, so you can't tell just with > > insmod. > > Actually I did use modprobe, but modprobe uses insmod and the error message that > came up was from insmod. In my confusion, I mis-spoke.
Ah. > > > Is possible that my laptop is too old for modern pcmcia? > I get similar, but not identical results from lspci -v. I don't know > if the differences are significant.: > > 00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1130 (rev 04) > (Subsystem line is missing) > Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > Bus: primary=00, secondary=20, subordinate=22, sec-latency=176 > (Memory window lines are missing) > I/O window 0: 00000000-00000003 > I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003 > 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 > > Note the I/O window is rather different, and a different TI part #. > It seems bad to me to have two windows mapped to the same address range, > but what do I do about it? Based on my own limited knowledge, you have a "modern" PCMCIA chipset, 'cause it's "CardBus". I believe the memory range items you're concerned about are hardware issues the manufacturer decided on, not configurable by you, and thus probably ok (at least there's nothing I know of you can do about them). In an earlier message, you mentioned that the card lights up when you plug it in, but doesn't get you network access. You didn't mention whether your sound was working, and if you heard the two beeps that signify loading a PCMCIA card. You get two beeps - one high pitch to signify a card is plugged, and then another - high pitch again if the driver loads ok, low if it fails. The light suggests the card is activated somehow, and may mean a driver is loading. Do you hear the beeps? Your system might be loading the wrong driver, and you'll have to track that down if so. Tell us what you can about the beeps, etc. Assuming your system is finding a valid driver, I'm wondering about the network setup. I'm rather a newbie too. My Thinkpad has a built in eth0, but the Toshiba I passed on to my Dad has a PCMCIA NIC, and during install, I beileve I had to choose one of the alternate options to configure it for the net (it's been a while). Your best bet (just to get a working system to explore further with) may be to go through the install and look for an alternate choice something like "configure PCMCIA modules". But let us know about the beeping part - that would eliminate or point to something real. Cheers, Bret -- bwaldow at alum.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
