I thought I would post a message on how I got a Netgear PCMCIA fast ethernet (fa511) card to work with Debian Woody and a 2.4 kernel.
These are the steps I took to get it working using 2.4.20 kernel modules and not the pcmcia-cs package. (You do not need the pcmcia-cs package at all and I don't have it installed.) 1. Compile a kernel with the following: General Setup --> PCMCIA/CardBus support --> <M> PCMCIA/CardBus support [*] CardBus support Network Device Support --> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --> [*] Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) [*] EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers <M> DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support 2. Install the kernel and modules and reboot. 3. Create a file /etc/modutils/netgear with the following: -- snip -- # Load pcmcia_core, yenta_socket and ds modules before tulip module. #below tulip pcmcia_core yenta_socket ds pre-install tulip insmod pcmcia_core && insmod yenta_socket && insmod ds # eth0 is the Netgear fast ethernet PCMCIA card. alias eth0 tulip -- end snip -- 4. Update your /etc/modules.conf file by running: update-modules Nb. For some reason the "below" command didn't work as expected from reading the modules.conf man page. If anyone can tell me why I would be grateful as this seems like it would be a cleaner method than the pre-install line I used in the end. 5. Create a /etc/network/interfaces file with appropriate configurations like: -- snip --auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add default gw 192.168.0.1 -- end snip -- 6. Then simply doing ifup eth0 and ifdown eth0 will bring up and take down the interface as it should. Note that I didn't include a post-remove line in the /etc/modutils/netgear file since you may not want to remove the pcmcia_core and yenta_socket etc. if you have other pcmcia cards using it. Simple to add it if you want. Hopefully this will help someone else. I was certainly confused into thinking that I needed the pcmcia-cs package even with 2.4 kernels. I know that you can still take this approach with 2.4 kernels but I wanted to make use of the 2.4 kernel modules available. Regards. Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]