Hi everyone, I have a powerbook 1400 here with a newly compiled 2.4.23 kernel with support for the onboard (previously unsupported) PCMCIA controller. Just to clarify this is a 'Mach Kernel' image with no modules -- i.e. everything is compiled in -- including all drivers relevant to the networking card and PCMCIA.
I have a supported PCMCIA network card that works perfectly under MacOS. I have installed the pcmcia-cs package - and it is configured and up and running. When I insert the card cardmgr recognizes it, and initializes it. However, it then goes into an endless loop trying to load the module (net/8390.o) for the card..... it is interesting to note that a quick ^c ifconfig -a shows an eth0 where there was none before... since i have compiled support for this module into the kernel there should be no need to load a module methinks. I tried commenting out the line in /etc/pcmcia/config-4 where it specifies the loading of that module.... upon restarting pcmcia services, and inserting the card it is recognized, but i still have no eth0... I am in the process of recompiling the kernel with a separate module... but is there any better way to handle this? (compiling takes quite a while even on my 8500) Thanks in advance, Dylan -- "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -Albert Einstein
