Re: 1.4RC1 & PCMCIA

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8067

A. Craig West wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Martin Lindquist wrote:
> 
> 
>>To use the pcmcia-cs package, you have to turn pcmcia support off in the
>>kernal completely... I don't know if it says that in the dox (short on
>>time here), but that's what you need to do.  Option two would be to use
>>the kernal pcmcia support as well.
>>
> 
> 
> The problem is getting the pcmcia support to work on the boot cd. You can't do
> much of anything until you have the network up, and the network card is
> pcmcia. Now it is quite possible that the pcmcia support is built into the
> kernel on the cd image, but if it is, it isn't working...
> In my case, dmesg reports an oops right after the message:
> Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.21)
> 
> I have the output from dmesg if it would help anybody. As somebody else
> mentioned, lsmod shows a module cpqarray which is listed as Initializing. I'm
> guessing from the name that this is "Compaq SMART2 Driver".
> There are no more attempts to load any drivers at that point, so we get no
> pcmcia, thus no network card drivers, and no real ability to fix it. I have
> the stage3 tarball, so I guess I will try to build a new kernel with most of
> the unneeded stuff removed (particarly the Compaq SMART2 Driver) and see if
> I can use that to continue the process.
> 

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