On Wednesday 06 June 2001 08:44, Steve Dobson wrote: > Hi Debian laptop users > > Sorry to bother you with what I am sure will turn out to be a stupid > mistake on my part, but I have been unable to find any help in either the > Debian bug database or on the web.
I too am experiencing the same problems, Steve. Hopefully, someone has solved this problem already. I have searched through docs and tried just about every module but cant get it to work either. If you do fix the problem I'd really appreciate a quick heads up on how you got it working. : ) Thanks for your time, CM > > I installed Debian just over 2 years ago on my laptop (a Dell Inspiron), > and with a little effort got everything working. I have managed to > configure the PCMCIA network.opt script so that when I plug in my 3c575 > network card it re-configures the system for scheme (I use a number) and I > can now access the Web/Email/etc from which ever site I connect to. > > My problem started when I switched to the new 2.4.x kernels. I had already > read that the 3c575 card is now supported by the 3c59x kernel module. So I > built that part of the kernel as a module, and place the following lines in > the /etc/pcmcia/config.opt file: > > device "3c59x" > class "network" module "3c59x" > > card "3Com 3c575-TX Fast EtherLink XL" > manfid 0x0101, 0x5057 > bind "3c59x" > > module "3c59x" opts "debug=3 rx_copybreak=300" > > This works well up to a point. When I insert the drive it loads the 3c59x > kernel module, and when I pull the card it takes it down okay. The problem > seams to be that `cardmgr' is calling the network script with `3c59x' > rather than `eth0' (which is what I found it did under 2.2.x). I have > extracted the appropriate bit from my log files. > > cardmgr[212]: initializing socket 0 > cardmgr[212]: socket 0: 3Com 3c575-TX Fast EtherLink XL > cardmgr[212]: executing: 'modprobe 3c59x debug=3 rx_copybreak=300' > cardmgr[212]: executing: './network start 3c59x' > cardmgr[212]: + 3c59x: error fetching interface information: Device not > found cardmgr[212]: + 3c59x: unknown interface: No such device > cardmgr[212]: + SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > cardmgr[212]: + 3c59x: unknown interface: No such device > cardmgr[212]: + SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device > cardmgr[212]: + SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device > cardmgr[212]: + 3c59x: unknown interface: No such device > cardmgr[212]: + SIOCADDRT: No such device > cardmgr[212]: + SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable > > Reading /etc/pcmcia/network I see that the second argument should be the > network interface name not the device name. Why is cardmgr passing `3c59x' > to this script rather than `eth0'? What have I missed? If this is just an > RTFM or STFW please point me at the appropriate URL. > > I know that this is the correct diver and that it works because I can > configure the network by hand. I would like the PCMCIA subsystem to do it > automatically. > > Thanks loads for any help you can give > > Steve
