On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:39:12PM +0200, Jan T. Kim wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I installed Debian r3.0 from the official CD set on a Sony notebook
> computer, equipped with a 3com PCMCIA ethernet card:
>
> % cardctl ident
> Socket 0:
> product info: "3Com Corporation", "3CCFE575BT", "LAN Cardbus Card",
> "001"
> manfid: 0x0101, 0x5157
> function: 6 (network)
> PCI id: 0x10b7, 0x5157
>
> After the initial installation, the network card worked fine, but then,
> after switching the kernel to kernel-image-2.4.18-686, I could not get it
> to work.
[...]
> I now have the following questions:
>
> * Have I overlooked something obvious?
No, it is really not obvious until I digged through the kernel source
files, from the 3c59x.c file :
LK1.1.3 25 April 2000, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Merged with 3c575_cb.c
You should then use the 3c59x.o module which is in every 2.4 Debian
kernel (except the bf2.4 !).
> * Why are the modules not in the pcmcia-modules package?
No idea, maybe the chipset is the same for ISA or PCI card and PCMCIA
? At least, this saves you the pain to set up properly PCMCIA.
[...]
> * Is there a simple instruction sheet for building a kernel with
> the modules I need and otherwise identical to the 686 kernel?
Install the kernel-package package and follow the instructions in
/usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz (you may want to copy the
/boot/config-2.4.18-686 file to /usr/src/linux/.config to have the
default options be the ones from the 686 kernel).
> * Finally, what is the idea behind this "bf variant"? All I've found
> is the package is "primarily intended to be used as the initial
> installation kernel". Any acronym expansion on "bf"?
Boot-floppies ? This name and the function are described there :
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html
Basically, it is a 2.4 kernel whereas every other kernel choices are
2.2.20 based.
Fred
