Re: PCMCIA Network card issue

I have tried looking at the pcmcia/network.opts and /pcmcia/network 
files to no success.  

Here's the actually error message being written to the logs.

[cardmgr] starting, version is 3.2.0
[cardmgr] socket 1: CardBus hotplug device
[dhcpcd] dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device
[rc-scripts] Failed to bring eth0 up

when i attempt to start dhcpcd after I log in, it gives the same error 
message.

I did cardctl and got the following message.

#  cardctl config

Socket 1:
Vcc 3.3V Vpp1 3.3V Vpp2 3.3V
interface type is "cardbus"
irq 11 [exclusive] [level]
function 0:

# cardctl ident

Socket 1:
product info: "3Com Corporation", "3CCFE575CT", "Lan Cardbus CArd", "004"
manfid: 0x0101, 0x5257
function: 6 (network)

So if I might guess, cardmgr appears to recognize my device.  However, 
when i use "ifconfig", the PCMCIA card does not show up.  Where might my 
problem lie?  Is it with an improper DHCP configuration?  Or is the 
PCMCIA card not being properly loaded?

-Bill





Joseph Santaniello wrote:

>Idependant of sorting out the kernel issue with mounting /boot have a
>look at:
>/etc/pcmcia/network.opts and /etc/pcmcia/network. Specify in there that
>you want to use dhcp.
>
>Joseph
>
>
>On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 22:10, William Stenross wrote:
>  
>
>>I currently am trying to get Gentoo working on a Dell Inspiron 3700 
>>laptop with a 3com 3ccfe575ct PCMCIA network card.  However, the nework 
>>card fails to start when I start the computer.  When I had redhat 
>>installed on this laptop, it was using kernel driver 3c575_cb for the 
>>PCMCIA card.  
>>
>>Here is the exact error message during start-up:
>>
>>"failed to bring eth0 up"
>>
>>This happens when it is trying to start dhcpcd.  It does however, load 
>>PCMCIA support during the start-up.
>>
>>When I configured the kernel during the install it only had options for 
>>3c574 and 3c589.  Would those work with my PCMCIA card?
>>
>>I tried to recompile the kernel with support for those two drivers, but 
>>I'm not sure if I'm recompiling the kernel correctly.
>>
>>Here are the steps I go through:
>>
>>cd /usr/src/linux
>># make menuconfig
>><check to make sure 3c374 and 3c389 are marked to be included>
>># make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
>># mv /boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage.orig 
>><here it gives me the error message that bzImage doesn't exist.  Shouldn't it exist though, since I have already compiled a kernel before (when I was installing gentoo)?>
>># cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot
>>
>>When I reboot, it doesn't seem to load the new kernel. (I could be wrong).
>>
>>I have some experience with linux and unix systems, but this is the 
>>first time I've really taken a look under the hood, so to speak, so any 
>>help or direction towards places on the web that might help me would be 
>>greatly appreciated.  If any additional information is needed feel free 
>>to ask.
>>
>>thanks.
>>
>>-Bill
>>
>>
>>
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