Hi I've been reading this list for a while and am amazed at the quality and speed of the answers everyone gives, so I thought i'd try my luck.
Last night, I tried to compile a new kernel (2.4.18) with pcmcia support for my laptop in the kernel rather than use the separate module. The compile went fine but, BUT, i'm not exactly sure what the story is with cardmgr. When i boot with my ethernet card already in, it works fine, but when I try inserting it after ive booted it doesnt work. I also use a wireless lan card at school and that is the opposite - when i boot with it in i get an error message like this one: Apr 17 15:47:43 minami kernel: eth0: Tx error, status 4 (FID=057C) but when i insert it after booting it works fine. I'm guessing that I've got something I don't need installed - when using the kernel pcmcia drivers do you need cardmgr?? cardmgr is running like this: # ps aux | grep card root 296 0.0 0.6 1392 572 ? S 15:44 0:00 /sbin/cardmgr -C config-2.4 below are some excerpts from my syslog when i insert the cards and dmesg when i booted with both cards in Can able tell me what I'm doing wrong thanks in advance Michael syslog when I insert my lan card ( the card doesnt work ) Apr 17 15:55:46 minami cardmgr[296]: executing: 'modprobe -r orinoco' Apr 17 15:55:46 minami cardmgr[296]: executing: 'modprobe -r hermes' Apr 17 15:55:51 minami kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 1): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x5257 Apr 17 15:55:51 minami kernel: PCI: Enabling device 01:00.0 (0000 -> 0003) Apr 17 15:55:51 minami kernel: 01:00.0: 3Com PCI 3CCFE575CT Tornado CardBus at 0x4000. Vers LK1.1.16 Apr 17 15:55:51 minami kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:00.0 to 64 Apr 17 15:55:51 minami cardmgr[296]: socket 0: CardBus hotplug device Apr 17 15:55:51 minami /sbin/hotplug: arguments (net) env (PWD=/etc/hotplug INTERFACE=eth1 ACTION=register DEBUG=yes OLDPWD=/ SHLVL=1 HOME=/ PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin _=/usr/bin/env) Apr 17 15:55:51 minami /sbin/hotplug: invoke /etc/hotplug/net.agent () Apr 17 15:55:51 minami /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth1 Apr 17 15:55:51 minami /sbin/hotplug: arguments (pci) env (PWD=/etc/hotplug PCI_CLASS=20000 ACTION=add DEBUG=yes OLDPWD=/ SHLVL=1 PCI_SUBSYS_ID=10B7:5C57 PCI_SLOT_NAME=01:00.0 HOME=/ PCI_ID=10B7:5257 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin _=/usr/bin/env) Apr 17 15:55:51 minami /sbin/hotplug: invoke /etc/hotplug/pci.agent () Apr 17 15:55:52 minami /etc/hotplug/pci.agent: ... no modules for PCI slot 01:00.0 Apr 17 15:56:01 minami /USR/SBIN/CRON[1077]: (list) CMD ([ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner ] && /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner) +++++++++++ syslog when I insert my wireless lan card ( the card works) Apr 17 16:00:21 minami cardmgr[1148]: + modprobe: Can't locate module hermes Apr 17 16:00:21 minami cardmgr[1148]: modprobe exited with status 255 Apr 17 16:00:21 minami cardmgr[1148]: module /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/hermes.o not available Apr 17 16:00:21 minami cardmgr[1148]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco' Apr 17 16:00:21 minami cardmgr[1148]: + modprobe: Can't locate module orinoco Apr 17 16:00:21 minami cardmgr[1148]: modprobe exited with status 255 Apr 17 16:00:21 minami cardmgr[1148]: module /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia/orinoco.o not available Apr 17 16:00:22 minami kernel: eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0006:0008 Apr 17 16:00:22 minami kernel: eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 6.08 Apr 17 16:00:22 minami kernel: eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported Apr 17 16:00:22 minami kernel: eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported Apr 17 16:00:22 minami kernel: eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key Apr 17 16:00:22 minami kernel: eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:0B:E8:2A Apr 17 16:00:22 minami kernel: eth0: Station name "HERMES I" Apr 17 16:00:22 minami kernel: eth0: ready Apr 17 16:00:22 minami kernel: eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f Apr 17 16:00:22 minami cardmgr[1148]: executing: './network start eth0' Apr 17 16:00:22 minami /sbin/hotplug: arguments (net) env (PWD=/etc/hotplug INTERFACE=eth0 ACTION=unregister DEBUG=yes OLDPWD=/ SHLVL=1 HOME=/ PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin _=/usr/bin/env) Apr 17 16:00:22 minami /sbin/hotplug: invoke /etc/hotplug/net.agent () Apr 17 16:00:22 minami /sbin/hotplug: arguments (net) env (PWD=/etc/hotplug INTERFACE=eth0 ACTION=register DEBUG=yes OLDPWD=/ SHLVL=1 HOME=/ PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin _=/usr/bin/env) Apr 17 16:00:22 minami /sbin/hotplug: invoke /etc/hotplug/net.agent () Apr 17 16:00:22 minami /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifdown eth0 Apr 17 16:00:22 minami kernel: eth0: error -5 reading info frame. Frame dropped. Apr 17 16:00:22 minami /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth0 +++++++ dmesg Linux version 2.4.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Wed Apr 17 12:43:39 JST 2002 Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] PCI: Assigned IRQ 9 for device 00:0a.0 PCI: Assigned IRQ 9 for device 00:0a.1 orinoco.c 0.09b (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) hermes.c: 16 Jan 2002 David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> orinoco_cs.c 0.09b (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Yenta IRQ list 0c98, PCI irq9 Socket status: 30000006 Yenta IRQ list 0c98, PCI irq9 Socket status: 30000010 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed Adding Swap: 196552k swap-space (priority -1) Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... SB 3.01 detected OK (240) ESS chip ES1879 detected cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding 0x800-0x807 cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0006:0008 eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 6.08 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:0B:E8:2A eth0: Station name "HERMES I" eth0: ready eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f eth0: Tx error, status 4 (FID=00BF) [ X 100 or more] eth0: Tx error, status 4 (FID=0095) eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0006:0008 eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 6.08 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:0B:E8:2A eth0: Station name "HERMES I" eth0: ready eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f eth0: error -5 reading info frame. Frame dropped. cs: cb_alloc(bus 1): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x5257 PCI: Enabling device 01:00.0 (0000 -> 0003) 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 01:00.0: 3Com PCI 3CCFE575CT Tornado CardBus at 0x4000. Vers LK1.1.16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:00.0 to 64 cs: cb_free(bus 1) eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0006:0008 eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 6.08 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:0B:E8:2A eth0: Station name "HERMES I" eth0: ready eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f eth0: error -5 reading info frame. Frame dropped. cs: cb_alloc(bus 1): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x5257 PCI: Enabling device 01:00.0 (0000 -> 0003) 01:00.0: 3Com PCI 3CCFE575CT Tornado CardBus at 0x4000. Vers LK1.1.16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:00.0 to 64 cs: cb_free(bus 1) cs: cb_alloc(bus 1): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x5257 PCI: Enabling device 01:00.0 (0000 -> 0003) 01:00.0: 3Com PCI 3CCFE575CT Tornado CardBus at 0x4000. Vers LK1.1.16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:00.0 to 64 cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding 0x800-0x807 cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0006:0008 eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 6.08 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:0B:E8:2A eth0: Station name "HERMES I" eth0: ready eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f eth0: error -5 reading info frame. Frame dropped. cs: cb_free(bus 1) eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0006:0008 eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 6.08 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:0B:E8:2A eth0: Station name "HERMES I" eth0: ready eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f eth0: error -5 reading info frame. Frame dropped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]