[Grml] grml 0.8: how to use my 3com pcmcia card?

[Werner Flamme]

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Michael Prokop schrieb am 14.08.2006 20:39:
> * Werner Flamme <werner.flamme at 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


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