[newbie] PCMCIA Problems on Acer Travelmate 653LCi Laptop
Hi Folks, I'm at the end of my tether with this thing :-)) Having been through (and through and through) the PCMCIA howto untold times and Googled for hours, I'm no further ahead in getting this thing to stick on a stock Mdk9.1 install The problem is getting the modules to load at boot, I can get the card recognised _only_ by modprobing ds, serial_cs and yenta_socket as root after the laptop as booted. I've always been under the impression that adding module names to /etc/modules would cause them to be installed at boot time I know I'm missing something really simple here but I'm dammed if I can see what it is. /etc/modules as follows: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. yenta_socket pcmcia_core serial_cs ds scsi_hostadapter == /etc/pcmcia/pcmcia # /etc/pcmcia/pcmcia # PCMCIA=YES PCIC=i82365 == /etc/modules.conf # /etc/modules.conf # alias tap0 ethertap options tap0 -o tap0 unit=0 probeall scsi_hostadapter usb-storage ide-scsi alias eth0 bcm4400 alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss = Any and all help , assistance, pointers and even brickbats gratefully received ... Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Problems, Mandrake 9.2.
I have done as instructed and there was no output. My system must not even know that I inserted the wireless card. I took a screen capture of my system setup in windozs, if that might provide some insight on the situation. http://web.mit.edu/jobevers/www/linux/system.snapshot.jpg Thanks. Job Before inserting your card open a terminal and as su/root type tail -f /var/log/messages. Then insert the card and see what the output says about it. That way you (and us too) will have more of an idea what might wrong. If it says non supported card it's time for some googling. It's a cardbus device so you should be getting references to PCI devices as well. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org --- Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just purchased a Blitzz BWP612B NetWave Point PC 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN Cardbus PC Card. The product claims to support Linux Red Hat 8.0, so I would assume that it would work with Mandrake 9.2, but I don't know what I need to do to make it work I honestly don't remember the specs on my system. It is a Gateway 400 series laptop. The card works just fine when I reboot and use WindowsXP, so the problem is not with incompatible hardware. I've read through some of the previous postings and attempted to follow some of the instructions there. I have installed pcmcia-cs and wireless-tools. # more /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket But whenever I startup, my card doesn't give the two beeps i am supposed to hear when the PCMCIA slot is activated. # cardctl ident Socket 0: no product info available I also don't see a listing for the pcmcia slot under HardDrake, and # dmesg | grep pcmcia returns nothing. If it didn't work perfectly in Windows I would think that there was a hardware problem. As it is, I have no idea what is wrong, nor any idea what I need to do to fix it. __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Problems, Mandrake 9.2.
On Monday 29 December 2003 00:40, Job Evers wrote: I have done as instructed and there was no output. My system must not even know that I inserted the wireless card. I took a screen capture of my system setup in windozs, if that might provide some insight on the situation. http://web.mit.edu/jobevers/www/linux/system.snapshot.jpg Thanks. Job Job, I've gotten a sweex cardbus card working with the same chips.that is: I didn't but the good people at linuxant did. Take a look over there (www;linuxant.com), you can get a free 30day trial to check if it (wrappers using windows drivers on linux) works for you. That way, at least you'll be able to connect to your LAN using ad-hoc mode and if you like it: donate a few $'s for the trouble they took. I suppose one should be able to get the card working with native linux drivers but I haven't had the heart to get to work on it, it's not worth it. On the whole one is better off selling the card to somebody else (a winders or non-choosy user) and buying a prism2 chipped card. Be it windows or linux they simply offer better performance aka realtek is pushing shoddy stuff again:( The prism2 card can be used as an accesspoint (linux only) if wanted and offers a monitor mode option.it's simply more value for money. There's probably more good hardware out there I'm not mentioning, but I wasn't planning on testing them all. The atmel chipsets work under linux for instance but aren't to my personal liking either.poor performance and no tools. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PCMCIA Problems, Mandrake 9.2.
Is this a question better asked on this list or the expert list? I just purchased a Blitzz BWP612B NetWave Point PC 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN Cardbus PC Card. The product claims to support Linux Red Hat 8.0, so I would assume that it would work with Mandrake 9.2, but I don't know what I need to do to make it work I honestly don't remember the specs on my system. It is a Gateway 400 SP series laptop. The card works just fine when I reboot and use WindowsXP, so the problem is not with incompatible hardware. I've read through some of the previous postings and attempted to follow some of the instructions there. I have installed pcmcia-cs and wireless-tools. # more /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket But whenever I startup, my card doesn't give the two beeps i am supposed to hear when the PCMCIA slot is activated. # cardctl ident Socket 0: no product info available I also don't see a listing for the pcmcia slot under HardDrake, and # dmesg | grep pcmcia returns nothing. If it didn't work perfectly in Windows I would think that there was a hardware problem. As it is, I have no idea what is wrong, nor any idea what I need to do to fix it. __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Problems, Mandrake 9.2.
On Sunday 21 December 2003 23:02, Job Evers wrote: Is this a question better asked on this list or the expert list? I just purchased a Blitzz BWP612B NetWave Point PC 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN Cardbus PC Card. The product claims to support Linux Red Hat 8.0, so I would assume that it would work with Mandrake 9.2, but I don't know what I need to do to make it work I honestly don't remember the specs on my system. It is a Gateway 400 SP series laptop. The card works just fine when I reboot and use WindowsXP, so the problem is not with incompatible hardware. I've read through some of the previous postings and attempted to follow some of the instructions there. I have installed pcmcia-cs and wireless-tools. # more /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket But whenever I startup, my card doesn't give the two beeps i am supposed to hear when the PCMCIA slot is activated. # cardctl ident Socket 0: no product info available I also don't see a listing for the pcmcia slot under HardDrake, and # dmesg | grep pcmcia returns nothing. If it didn't work perfectly in Windows I would think that there was a hardware problem. As it is, I have no idea what is wrong, nor any idea what I need to do to fix it. __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Before inserting your card open a terminal and as su/root type tail -f /var/log/messages. Then insert the card and see what the output says about it. That way you (and us too) will have more of an idea what might wrong. If it says non supported card it's time for some googling. It's a cardbus device so you should be getting references to PCI devices as well. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PCMCIA Problems, Mandrake 9.2.
I just purchased a Blitzz BWP612B NetWave Point PC 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN Cardbus PC Card. The product claims to support Linux Red Hat 8.0, so I would assume that it would work with Mandrake 9.2, but I don't know what I need to do to make it work I honestly don't remember the specs on my system. It is a Gateway 400 series laptop. The card works just fine when I reboot and use WindowsXP, so the problem is not with incompatible hardware. I've read through some of the previous postings and attempted to follow some of the instructions there. I have installed pcmcia-cs and wireless-tools. # more /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket But whenever I startup, my card doesn't give the two beeps i am supposed to hear when the PCMCIA slot is activated. # cardctl ident Socket 0: no product info available I also don't see a listing for the pcmcia slot under HardDrake, and # dmesg | grep pcmcia returns nothing. If it didn't work perfectly in Windows I would think that there was a hardware problem. As it is, I have no idea what is wrong, nor any idea what I need to do to fix it. __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] pcmcia problems
That happened to me until i changed "pnp OS" in my bios to off... hope that helps. ;-) Jason High escribi: I'm trying to install 7.2 on a Dell Latitude C800 laptop. I'm currently running RH7, but I don't like it and want to use Mandrake. When I installed RH, the first time I rebooted I got a kernel panic because of the pcmcia module. I had to boot interactively and not load the pcmcia module, then install the updated module and I was fine. When I try to install Mandrake, right after I choose the type of installation it tries to detect pcmcia devices and locks. I'm sure that it's the same problem, but how am I supposed to update the pcmcia module if I can't even get Mandrake installed. I'm sure that there is an option that I must be able to pass to tell it to not detect pcmcia, but I have no idea what it is. Thanks in advance. -Phirewall -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
[newbie] pcmcia problems
I'm trying to install 7.2 on a Dell Latitude C800 laptop. I'm currently running RH7, but I don't like it and want to use Mandrake. When I installed RH, the first time I rebooted I got a kernel panic because of the pcmcia module. I had to boot interactively and not load the pcmcia module, then install the updated module and I was fine. When I try to install Mandrake, right after I choose the type of installation it tries to detect pcmcia devices and locks. I'm sure that it's the same problem, but how am I supposed to update the pcmcia module if I can't even get Mandrake installed. I'm sure that there is an option that I must be able to pass to tell it to not detect pcmcia, but I have no idea what it is. Thanks in advance. -Phirewall Email account furnished courtesy of AntiOnline - http://www.AntiOnline.com AntiOnline - The Internet's Information Security Super Center!
[newbie] pcmcia problems
help, first attempted linux install on laptop, mandrake 7.0, install seems to run ok, then on rebooting to launch, machine freezes when starting pcmcia. Tried various routes on the configuration set-up, including omitting pcmcia set-up, but always stalls on reboot. can someone also give me a pointer about how to clear my harddrive completely to eliminate corruptions. tangled and baffled, m.
[newbie] PCMCIA Problems!!!!
Hi, i have Linux 6.0 installed in a micron transport trek2 laptop with a Xircom CreditCard pcm modem card...If somebody could mount this device please help me. - Original Message - From: Kyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 9:32 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem with root account in security ( paranoid ), Mandrake 7 (Air) Well, the login should be operator. and then your password. this should solve the problem... I had the same prob, but I went back and reinstalled -Original Message- From: Luciano Leonardo Lica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 6:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Problem with root account in security ( paranoid ), Mandrake 7 (Air) Hi, I try to use the newest Mandrake 7 final ISO , I have problems After the installation was sucessefull completed, i reboot and in login screen i dont log with the root account, like password or account is incorrect, but..., i made 2 more reinstall , and i have the same problem. In my all installation i choose the PARANOID Security mode. Maybe my problem is here..!?? Anyone can help me to correct thiz problem Urgent..!?? Thanx for all, and sorry my BAD English too OK..!! []'s Lica
[newbie] PCMCIA problems
Hello everyone, I am new to Mandrake, but not to Linux. I purchased the Box version of Mandrake 6.0 and installed it on my Toshiba Satellite 305cds. My pcmcia cards (a Xircom 56K modem and a 3com 589D nic card) worked fine until I applied the upgrade rpms from mandrake's ftp server. I installed the following rpms: initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm I reconfigured lilo and rebooted. Now, my pcmcia cards do not function. Upon entering runlevel 5, (or 3 for that matter), I get this error message after "Starting PCMCIA:" (I get this for each card) "Unable to map card memory." I also get two low pitched tones per card, not the usual 2 high pitched tones per card. Can anyone help me? I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thanks in advance! Mike
RE: [newbie] PCMCIA problems
I'll try it... thanks!!! -m On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Ty C. Mixon wrote: Have you tried the 2.2.10-32mdk kernel? That's what I'm running - but I don't have pcmcia. Ty C. Mixon ICQ: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Mike Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interrim Systems Administrator La Plaza Telecommunity 224 Cruz Alta Rd. Suite F Taos, NM 87571 (505)758-1836 ---
RE: [newbie] PCMCIA problems
Is this the latest update from Mandrake? If so, when did it come out? If not, where did you dig it up? On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote: Have you tried the 2.2.10-32mdk kernel? That's what I'm running - but I don't have pcmcia. Ty C. Mixon ICQ: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] PCMCIA problems
I believe I got it from Mandrake's FTP site. It's in the development area. ftp.linux-mandrake.com. I don't remember where exactly in the directory structure, so you'll have to look around. Ty C. Mixon ICQ: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brett Jones Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] PCMCIA problems Is this the latest update from Mandrake? If so, when did it come out? If not, where did you dig it up? On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote: Have you tried the 2.2.10-32mdk kernel? That's what I'm running - but I don't have pcmcia. Ty C. Mixon ICQ: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] PCMCIA problems
That would be from the cooker project, mirrors are listed on the website. On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Ty C. Mixon wrote: I believe I got it from Mandrake's FTP site. It's in the development area. ftp.linux-mandrake.com. I don't remember where exactly in the directory structure, so you'll have to look around. Ty C. Mixon ICQ: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brett Jones Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] PCMCIA problems Is this the latest update from Mandrake? If so, when did it come out? If not, where did you dig it up? On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote: Have you tried the 2.2.10-32mdk kernel? That's what I'm running - but I don't have pcmcia. Ty C. Mixon ICQ: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
