After trying to upgrade to woody from potato, I found that my pcmcia ethernet card would not work under kernel 2.4.9-AMD-K6.
With 2.2.18, the hardware was pcmcia i82365, ethernet card NE2000 (module ne) with io and irq set by hand. I looked through the list archives, and found that under 2.4.x kernels, the pcmcia driver is supposed to now be yenta_socket, and the ethernet card as pcnet_cs. Both modules load fine, and the LED's show link active, but eth0 will not activate. At this point I decided to eliminate any conflict problems, downloaded the latest woody cd, reformatted and installed with no legacy software, and repeated the above with no success. "linuxconf" and "netconf" create the /etc/conf.modules file in it, which the kernel ignores and uses /etc/modules.conf They also do not recognize pcnet_cs as a valid network interface module. I added "alias eth0 pcnet_cs" to the modules.conf by hand in the modutils directory first. The port still does not activate. I put an entry in /etc/network/interfaces for both the loopback and eth0 interfaces. I was a little bit surprised that no loopback interface had been defined. This is all I can get out of it: Please forgive any typo's, I have also been completely unsuccessful in trying to get copy and paste working in the KDE workspace. Every step forward for me seems to break two other things. I had to type the below by hand. # ifup eth0 ifup: interface eth0 already configured # ifdown eth0 eth0: unknown interface: No such device # ifup eth0 SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: unknown interface: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device eth0: unknown interface: No such device If anyone can say "use this and this driver", I would be very grateful. Unfortunately, the only instructions I've been able to find, which I have tried, have failed. Curt- --- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history.
