Phew. Sounds crazy. Try rsync to move the .o modules, using rsync -avz, which will preserve permissions and all that.
I assume you have checked to make sure that the xircom card is supported, by model #, on linuxdoc.org? You don't have the model# here, or I'd go check it for you. I wonder if it's the card, but it looks as though it's something else. Did you look in /target/var/log for error msgs? They are, I'm pretty sure, written in there. If not there, they'd be in /var/log on the ramdisk (get to with ALT-F2) during the net install. That's where I'd look. Hope some of this helps. Can you trade cards ;> I'd suggest doing the fresh install with potato, anyway: the perl and kernel upgrade makes it kind of annoying if you're doing slink dist-upgrade (IMHO) Regards, Glen -----Original Message----- From: Eric House [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 11:30 AM To: Glen S Mehn Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org; recipient list not shown: ; Subject: RE: Problems with pcmcia on potato (on Dell Latitude) > I know I've seen you on here before, so I'll assume you have some good idea > what you're doing. Actually, it's my problem. I hope the assumption still holds. :-) > You should be able to get the card workign during the drivers config/just > after the drivers install. The important thing at this point is to make sure > you've applied the PCMCIA support (which come in as a separate set of > drivers from the other drivers) BEFORE you apply any other drivers. Done. > I've installed Debian-potato on ~6 laptops, all with different cards (no > Xircom cards, though) and been able to do a net install. I've done a net install with the same laptop and a different card. And this xircom card works fine under 'Dows. I don't think it's a hardware problem. > Though you might check to see if there's an i/o conflict or something > between the modem and the ethernet driver (I've had problems with this in > 'doze). I'll pull the modem out and try again. Just in case. But the error's coming up before there's any attempt to use the cards: the installer can't find the drivers (the .o module files) because they're not where they belong. Question: is there any way to get a look at the error text that's written to the console used by the installer (Alt-F1). It's only visible for a second, and I bet there's a bunch more text that might help diagnose this. I've checked the other consoles: not there. > The /target/lib/modules/2.2.13 looks like it (may) be part of the pcmcia bug > in potato that I've noticed. I've seen that potato installs pcmcia support > and then fails to remove it even when you've asked it to. It's failing to copy the files to /lib/modules. I don't get to the point where it asks me if I want to remove it. > Did you install from a cd image? How did you install the base system? I copied the rescue, root, and driver1-3 .bin files to the laptop running 'Dows and made floppies using rawrite2. I copied base2_2.tgz to the laptop's 'Dows partition. I then booted off of the rescue disk and followed instructions. The error happens before the base2_2.tgz becomes an issue. Exactly the same technique worked for installing slink with a borrowed 3com card. But I wonder if it'd work for potato even with that card, since we're not getting to the point where pcmcia-cs is even running. It's the install that's failing. > i'd try reinstalling, do it carefully, and make sure you download the > pcmcia-modules-source and the kernel-source (the same version) just in case > you need to recompile. I'm going to try after removing the modem card, and I'm going to manually copy all the module binaries from /target/lib/modules/2.2.13 to /lib/modules/2.2.13 if the installer doesn't do it. > The other thing that it *could* be is that the card is crapped. If neither > RH nor Debian can find it, maybe the card (or the pcmcia slot(s)) themselves > are physical-layer busted. Do you get a link light? Works fine running 'Dows. Thanks, --Eric House **************************************************************************** ** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Check out Crosswords for PalmOS: <http://www.peak.org/~fixin/xwords> * * "The instructions said 'Win98 or better' -- so I installed Linux" * **************************************************************************** **
