Well, I decided to see if I could get ahead of the game in case some white knight sent me a working 8390.o. Here's what I found. The pcmcia disk has a file called pcmcia.rdz. This file is a gzipped ext2 filesystem. I copied it off, unzipped it, and mounted it via loopback. On this filesystem there's a file modules.cgz. This is a gzipped cpio archive. In it, among other things, is 8390.o! So, when I get all the aforementioned errors resulting from not finding /tmp/pcmcia/modules/net/8390.o, it's not because that file got dropped somewhere, but somehow the boot floppy is not mounting these things where the install script can find them. Any additional insights very welcome. I'd really like to try mdk7 but if I can make rh61 work and not this, I can't carry on too much longer. Eventually I need to get some useful work done. Thanks in advance, Steve Salkin > Hi: > > I am trying to install mandrake 7 on an IBM ThinkPad 240 without a CDROM > drive. I have a Mandrake 7 CD which I intend to mount at /home/ftp/pub on this > Redhat 6.1 box I have nearby, and use a crossover cable to connect them. The > Mandrake boot disk is having trouble loading a driver for the ethernet pcmcia > card though. > > The following messages appear on the console prefixed with: > (30)Mar 9 <the time> cardmgr[17]: > > intitializing socket 0 > socket 0: EP-210 Ethernet > executing 'insmod /tmp/pcmcia/modules/net/8390.o' > + Cannot find archive member /tmp/pcmcia/modules/net/8390.o: file does not > exist in archive > insmod exited with status 1 > executing: 'insmod /tmp/pcmcia/modules/pcnet_cs.o' > + /tmp/pcnet_cs.o: unresolved symbol ei_open > + /tmp/pcnet_cs.o: unresolved symbol enthdev_init > + /tmp/pcnet_cs.o: unresolved symbol ei_interrupt > + /tmp/pcnet_cs.o: unresolved symbol NS8390_init > insmod exited with status 0 > get dev info from on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable > > What's really strange to me about this is that I can get this part to work > with a redhat 6.0 CD. After loading a bunch of stuff across the connection, it > does eventually die with some message about being unable to set the server in > passive mode. But that's not the point, the point is that it can find the card > and use it to download things. > > If anyone can tell me what to do about this, I'll do it. For example, I think > I could take a working 8390.o and put it on the pcmcia floppy using this > redhat box, and then maybe this would work. I'm sure I could make room by > removing some unneeded pcmcia stuff if necessary. > > Thank in advance, > > Steve Salkin
