grml 0.8: how to use my 3com pcmcia card?
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Hi,
I just installed grml 0.8 on a Toshiba Satellite 4070CDT. There is no internal network card, so I use a pcmcia card, 3com's 589. The main problem of this machine are 64 MB RAM :-(
"hwinfo --pcmcia" gives no output, so does "hwinfo --netcard".
The modules pcmcia, yenta_socket, and 3c589_cs are loaded. Still ifconfig does not give me eth0 - "no device available". grml ;-)
What modules do I have to install to make this card run? It worked with 0.7, so there may be a chance to run it on 0.8 too...
On my VMWare, everything runs fine, but it's just a pcnet32 card...
Regards, Werner
- -- Werner Flamme, Abt. WKDV UFZ Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmbH, Permoserstr. 15 - 04318 Leipzig Tel.: (0341) 235-3921 - Fax (0341) 235-453921 http://www.ufz.de - eMail: werner.flamme@ufz.de
* Werner Flamme werner.flamme@ufz.de [20060814 17:15]:
I just installed grml 0.8 on a Toshiba Satellite 4070CDT. There is no internal network card, so I use a pcmcia card, 3com's 589. The main problem of this machine are 64 MB RAM :-(
"hwinfo --pcmcia" gives no output, so does "hwinfo --netcard".
The modules pcmcia, yenta_socket, and 3c589_cs are loaded. Still ifconfig does not give me eth0 - "no device available". grml ;-)
What modules do I have to install to make this card run? It worked with 0.7, so there may be a chance to run it on 0.8 too...
On my VMWare, everything runs fine, but it's just a pcnet32 card...
Does booting with 'pci=assign-busses' help?
If not, can you please run grml-hwinfo and send me (off the list) the resulting info.tar.bz2?
regards, -mika-
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Michael Prokop schrieb am 14.08.2006 20:39:
- Werner Flamme werner.flamme@ufz.de [20060814 17:15]:
I just installed grml 0.8 on a Toshiba Satellite 4070CDT. There is no internal network card, so I use a pcmcia card, 3com's 589. The main problem of this machine are 64 MB RAM :-(
"hwinfo --pcmcia" gives no output, so does "hwinfo --netcard".
The modules pcmcia, yenta_socket, and 3c589_cs are loaded. Still ifconfig does not give me eth0 - "no device available". grml ;-)
What modules do I have to install to make this card run? It worked with 0.7, so there may be a chance to run it on 0.8 too...
On my VMWare, everything runs fine, but it's just a pcnet32 card...
Does booting with 'pci=assign-busses' help?
If not, can you please run grml-hwinfo and send me (off the list) the resulting info.tar.bz2?
regards, -mika-
Mika,
thank you for your assistance :-) I solved the problem in the meantime. In /etc/modules, I now have the lines:
yenta_socket pcmcia_core pcmcia firmware_class rsrc_nonstatic 3c589_cs evdev fuse donauboe snd_es1968 radio_maestro
And now "ifconfig eth0 ..." does not complain any more :-) and "apt-get upgrade" is running... "hwinfo --pcmcia" and "hwinfo --netcards" work fine now. Seems to be a difference between modprobing after boot and including into boot process...
BTW, it took more than 3 hours to boot from CD. Especially the creation of /etc/fstab seemed to work endless. Does it scan the whole disk? Shouldn't it be enough to read the partition table?
Best regards, Werner
- -- Werner Flamme, Abt. WKDV UFZ Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmbH, Permoserstr. 15 - 04318 Leipzig Tel.: (0341) 235-3921 - Fax (0341) 235-453921 http://www.ufz.de - eMail: werner.flamme@ufz.de
* Werner Flamme werner.flamme@ufz.de [20060815 11:12]:
Michael Prokop schrieb am 14.08.2006 20:39:
- Werner Flamme werner.flamme@ufz.de [20060814 17:15]:
I just installed grml 0.8 on a Toshiba Satellite 4070CDT. There is no internal network card, so I use a pcmcia card, 3com's 589. The main problem of this machine are 64 MB RAM :-(
Does booting with 'pci=assign-busses' help?
If not, can you please run grml-hwinfo and send me (off the list) the resulting info.tar.bz2?
thank you for your assistance :-) I solved the problem in the meantime. In /etc/modules, I now have the lines:
yenta_socket pcmcia_core pcmcia firmware_class rsrc_nonstatic 3c589_cs evdev fuse donauboe snd_es1968 radio_maestro
And now "ifconfig eth0 ..." does not complain any more :-) and "apt-get upgrade" is running... "hwinfo --pcmcia" and "hwinfo --netcards" work fine now. Seems to be a difference between modprobing after boot and including into boot process...
Ok. Seems to be a race-condition somewhere in the kernel drivers. Let's see whether an upcoming kernel version fixes it.
BTW, it took more than 3 hours to boot from CD. Especially the creation of /etc/fstab seemed to work endless.
Huh. What system (especially: what harddisks) do you have? 'grml nofstab' boots fine, right?
Does it scan the whole disk? Shouldn't it be enough to read the partition table?
No, it does not scan the whole disk of course. scanpartitions just takes a look at /proc/partitions, tries to identify the filesystems on the available partitions and reports them in an appropriate format for rebuildfstab, which tries to build an appropriate /etc/fstab then.
I'd like to find out what's going on on your system. Can you please boot your system with 'grml nofstab', run grml-hwinfo and send me the resulting info.tar.bz2 (off the list)? If you manually run 'scanpartitions' - is it what runs that long?
regards, -mika-
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