Re: eth0(pcmcia) network not starting up at bootup.

2000-01-04 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Hoover) wrote: > Can someone tell me what to modify to get my ethernet to start after > booting the machine. Chris - Are you using DHCP? > I can manually start it after a boot, but I really would like to get > it back to being automated. What do you mean when you say th

Re: eth0(pcmcia) network not starting up at bootup.

2000-01-05 Thread Brian Mays
Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I switch to root and then start it with the /etc/pcmcia/network > script. Check two things: 1) Your PCMCIA network connection is configured in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and NOT /etc/init.d/network. 2) There exist symlinks similar to the following:

Re: pcmcia modem

2000-01-12 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philipp Timmalog) wrote: > I wanna use that modem also with debian by running pppconfig. Once > you get to the poing where you have to enter the adress of your modem > (e.g. serial Modem on Com2 --> /dev/ttyS1) What adress have i to enter > for that PCMCIA modem? Use /dev/mode

Re: pcmcia and nfs

2000-02-15 Thread Brian Mays
> Markus Fischer said: > > But I was not able to figure out _where_ mountnfs.sh gets executed > > before pcmcia support. I tried find /etc -type f|xargs grep mountnfs > > but no file except /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh showed the mountnfs > > string. I'm a little confused about this. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pcmcia config script

2000-09-12 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean 'Shaleh' Perry) wrote: > Debian kernels, the Debian way -- why is this not documented > somewhere? Maybe I should put this in my task laptop package? [ installation procedure omitted ] Hmm ... I thought that /usr/share/doc/pcmcia-cs/README.Debian.gz or /usr/share/doc

Re: Macros in Windowmaker

2000-09-28 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Cherry) wrote: > I realise that this is a touch off topic, but the keyboard on my > laptop (an acer travelmate 521te) has several extra functions > (accessible by pushing the `Fn' button + F1 to F8), some of which > generate keycodes under X. Is there any way to assign

Re: Problems with 2.4.0, pcmcia-cs, and kernel package

2001-01-08 Thread Brian Mays
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 03:32:14PM -0500, Brian Connelly wrote: > > > Welp, I've been trying to build and install 2.4.0 on my Sid machine, > > and I've been running into problems when I run: > > > > /usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --revision=blah modules_image > > Anyone have any ideas? Does the vers

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-22 Thread Brian Mays
First of all, I would like to apologize to everyone out there who is subscribed to this list. I have tried to stay out of this conversation for as long as I could, but this guy has tried my patience. He is an idiot and should be ignored henceforth. (BTW, this is the one and only reply that I sha

Re: Macros in Windowmaker

2000-09-28 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Cherry) wrote: > I realise that this is a touch off topic, but the keyboard on my > laptop (an acer travelmate 521te) has several extra functions > (accessible by pushing the `Fn' button + F1 to F8), some of which > generate keycodes under X. Is there any way to assign

Re: pcmcia config script

2000-09-12 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean 'Shaleh' Perry) wrote: > Debian kernels, the Debian way -- why is this not documented > somewhere? Maybe I should put this in my task laptop package? [ installation procedure omitted ] Hmm ... I thought that /usr/share/doc/pcmcia-cs/README.Debian.gz or /usr/share/do

Re: Problems with 2.4.0, pcmcia-cs, and kernel package

2001-01-08 Thread Brian Mays
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 03:32:14PM -0500, Brian Connelly wrote: > > > Welp, I've been trying to build and install 2.4.0 on my Sid machine, > > and I've been running into problems when I run: > > > > /usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --revision=blah modules_image > > Anyone have any ideas? Does the ver

Re: Back to Windows??

2001-02-21 Thread Brian Mays
First of all, I would like to apologize to everyone out there who is subscribed to this list. I have tried to stay out of this conversation for as long as I could, but this guy has tried my patience. He is an idiot and should be ignored henceforth. (BTW, this is the one and only reply that I sh

Re: pcmcia and dpkg-gencontrol error

1999-10-05 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jordan Howarth) writes: > I am trying to install the PCMCIA card services vis a vis the README > but keep getting an error 127; > dpkg-gencontrol: command not found > > Any clues? Debian newbie alert. You need to have the dpkg-dev package installed to build Debian packages fr

Re: 2.2.12 kernel apm

1999-10-08 Thread Brian Mays
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> I just installed kernel 2.2.12 on my laptop, and was having Joey> some trouble getting apm working. it said "apm disabled on Joey> user request" at boot time. Well, some grepping the kernel Joey> sources found that passin

Re: pcmcia problems with potato and 2.2.12 kernel

1999-10-11 Thread Brian Mays
On Friday, October 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 7000 and a Netgear PCMCIA Ethernet card. I > > just upgraded to potato (using apt-get) and then installed the > > 2.2.12 kernel, specifically, the following packages: > > > > kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-3 pcmcia-modules

Re: mount PCMCIA-CD-ROM?

1999-11-02 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reichel, Robert, STB) wrote: > the last weekend, I've installed Debian on an portege 3020ct. I've > done the basic-install from a dos-partition. Now my problem is: How > can I mount my PCMCIA-IDE-CDROM (Freecom)? A "normal" IDE-device I > would mount with /dev/hdb or something

Re: eth0(pcmcia) network not starting up at bootup.

2000-01-04 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Hoover) wrote: > Can someone tell me what to modify to get my ethernet to start after > booting the machine. Chris - Are you using DHCP? > I can manually start it after a boot, but I really would like to get > it back to being automated. What do you mean when you say th

Re: eth0(pcmcia) network not starting up at bootup.

2000-01-05 Thread Brian Mays
Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I switch to root and then start it with the /etc/pcmcia/network > script. Check two things: 1) Your PCMCIA network connection is configured in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and NOT /etc/init.d/network. 2) There exist symlinks similar to the following:

Re: pcmcia and dpkg-gencontrol error

1999-10-05 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jordan Howarth) writes: > I am trying to install the PCMCIA card services vis a vis the README > but keep getting an error 127; > dpkg-gencontrol: command not found > > Any clues? Debian newbie alert. You need to have the dpkg-dev package installed to build Debian packages fr

Re: 2.2.12 kernel apm

1999-10-08 Thread Brian Mays
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> I just installed kernel 2.2.12 on my laptop, and was having Joey> some trouble getting apm working. it said "apm disabled on Joey> user request" at boot time. Well, some grepping the kernel Joey> sources found that passin

Re: pcmcia problems with potato and 2.2.12 kernel

1999-10-11 Thread Brian Mays
On Friday, October 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 7000 and a Netgear PCMCIA Ethernet card. I > > just upgraded to potato (using apt-get) and then installed the > > 2.2.12 kernel, specifically, the following packages: > > > > kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-3 pcmcia-modules

Re: mount PCMCIA-CD-ROM?

1999-11-02 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reichel, Robert, STB) wrote: > the last weekend, I've installed Debian on an portege 3020ct. I've > done the basic-install from a dos-partition. Now my problem is: How > can I mount my PCMCIA-IDE-CDROM (Freecom)? A "normal" IDE-device I > would mount with /dev/hdb or something

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-17 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Allison) wrote: > I have built a kernel and modules images and have tried to install > them both. I have to do a dpkp -i --force-overwrite in order to get > them to install. The error is related to a duplicate of pcmcia_core > modules. It's not a duplicate of the modul

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-17 Thread Brian Mays
Pann McCuaig wrote: > I had a similar problem. I turned off all PCMCIA support in the > kernel. I don't know why it's there in the first place (seems to be > new with 2.4.x). The 2.4 kernels have introduced their own PCMCIA drivers. Now there are two sets of drivers, the 2.4 kernel drivers, and

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-17 Thread Brian Mays
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I built my own pcmcia-modules package and kernel-image package > from the 2.4.17 kernel-source and 3.1.36 pcmcia-source. You mean that > these are still building bad links? Not the pcmcia source. The kernel source is building the bad links, and there

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-18 Thread Brian Mays
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > QUESTION: If I were to use the kernel from ftp.kernel.org and then > run a make-kpkg, would I see this same problem? It depends. If you are using the 2.4 kernel drivers (i.e., you have turned on the CONFIG_PCMCIA option) then you would not experience the

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-19 Thread Brian Mays
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I upgrade pcmcia-cs to pull in the newer applications (cardctl > v3.1.31) and in that process ended up with this problem. > > In the past 2.4.xx kernels I have been using the kernel supplied > drivers for my network cards. Is it safe to assume that the

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-19 Thread Brian Mays
Brian Mays wrote: > > I just checked to refresh my memory on the problem that you are > > discussing. If you are using the 2.4 kernel drivers, then you do > > not need to install (or even build) a pcmcia-modules-2.4.18 package. > > This is the package that had the conflic

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-19 Thread Brian Mays
Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [symlinks bug in kernel-image-* ellided] Well, since the dev gang are > aware of this I'm sure kernel-image-2.4.18-* will be fixed when they > happen. They should be. If not, complain to Herbert Xu. Brian Mays wrote: > > Try v

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-20 Thread Brian Mays
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have managed to get this working with 3.1.31-7. However, my kernel > drivers are selected for a driver 'orinoco' while the pcmcia package > based drivers are wlan_cs. The wlan_cs drivers are the older drivers > for the D-Link DWL-650 and are being repla

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-20 Thread Brian Mays
Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think orinoco cards can be classed as either rare or crappy > - but their module has definitely changed names, and *that* was > dependent on the kernel rev. Apples ... oranges. I was *not* talking about orinoco cards. However, since you have brought

Re: PCMCIA network problems at startup

2002-04-03 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua Penix) wrote: > Running Debian Woody on a Gateway Solo 9100 laptop, with an Intel > Pro/100 CardBus II (eepro100_cb.o driver) network card, pulling a DHCP > address using dhclient. > > When I boot the laptop, everything appears to get recognized > correctly, but I am unab

Re: pcmcia load at boot

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
> I run sid on a Toshiba Portege 3480, and if I have some questions about > using a pcmcia network card. > > Is there some deep reason that the pcmcia startup script (in init.d) isn't > run until runlevel 2? Since the ifupdown stuff is in rcS.d this means that > the pcmcia card won't be configured

Re: pcmcia load at boot

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrik Andreasen) asked: > ... it turns out that the actual issue wasn't when the pcmcia drivers > was loaded (although there was a deep reason for when to load the > drivers of course), but this: > > If I boot the machine with no card inserted, I then have to insert > the card,

Re: pcmcia load at boot

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
Patrik Andreasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my /etc/network/interfaces contains: > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > ... plus some comments. So I should remove "auto eth0"? Patrik - Thanks for following up on this. Yes. You should remove the "auto eth

Re: problems with pcmcia cardmgr

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel Parsons) wrote: > I'm trying to set up pcmcia support on a debian potato sytem. When you > start up the init script "pcmcia start" it seems to start, but no > beeps. a quick check of "pcmcia status" reveals that it's stopped. I > looked in the logs (/var/log/daemon.log) a

Re: PCMCIA network problems at startup

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
Joshua Penix wrote: > I'm a bit confused about the interaction between > /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. My > understanding is that the information in /etc/network/interfaces takes > precedence, and eliminates the need to set anything in network.opts. Josh - Network.opts ha

Re: PCMCIA network problems at startup

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("A. Demarteau (linux rules!)") wrote: > the ifup and ifdown scripts are afaik not called upon insertion of a > pcmcia card. They are in the newer versions of the pcmcia-cs package. The ifup script will configure a network interface on startup only if there is an "auto eth0" (o

Re: pcmcia

2002-04-13 Thread Brian Mays
> I am running debian 2.2.20 sid on a laptop and I am haveing trouble > with the pcmcia card. It starts after the nettwork and couses the > pc to boot without getting an address from dhcp. I need to run > /etc/init.d/networking restart everytime I have booted up. How can I > get the pcmcia card t

Re: dhcp while booting the system?

2002-08-19 Thread Brian Mays
Original post: > > all my notebook systems run fine except one point (it is the same on > > every maschine): the dhcpclient is apparently started before the > > pcmcia services are up. ... I can not believe that I'am the only one > > who want network access from the first time on. "Derek Broughto

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-17 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Allison) wrote: > I have built a kernel and modules images and have tried to install > them both. I have to do a dpkp -i --force-overwrite in order to get > them to install. The error is related to a duplicate of pcmcia_core > modules. It's not a duplicate of the modu

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-17 Thread Brian Mays
Pann McCuaig wrote: > I had a similar problem. I turned off all PCMCIA support in the > kernel. I don't know why it's there in the first place (seems to be > new with 2.4.x). The 2.4 kernels have introduced their own PCMCIA drivers. Now there are two sets of drivers, the 2.4 kernel drivers, an

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-17 Thread Brian Mays
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I built my own pcmcia-modules package and kernel-image package > from the 2.4.17 kernel-source and 3.1.36 pcmcia-source. You mean that > these are still building bad links? Not the pcmcia source. The kernel source is building the bad links, and ther

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-18 Thread Brian Mays
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > QUESTION: If I were to use the kernel from ftp.kernel.org and then > run a make-kpkg, would I see this same problem? It depends. If you are using the 2.4 kernel drivers (i.e., you have turned on the CONFIG_PCMCIA option) then you would not experience th

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-19 Thread Brian Mays
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I upgrade pcmcia-cs to pull in the newer applications (cardctl > v3.1.31) and in that process ended up with this problem. > > In the past 2.4.xx kernels I have been using the kernel supplied > drivers for my network cards. Is it safe to assume that the

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-19 Thread Brian Mays
Brian Mays wrote: > > I just checked to refresh my memory on the problem that you are > > discussing. If you are using the 2.4 kernel drivers, then you do > > not need to install (or even build) a pcmcia-modules-2.4.18 package. > > This is the package that had the c

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-19 Thread Brian Mays
Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [symlinks bug in kernel-image-* ellided] Well, since the dev gang are > aware of this I'm sure kernel-image-2.4.18-* will be fixed when they > happen. They should be. If not, complain to Herbert Xu. Brian Mays wrote: > > Try v

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-20 Thread Brian Mays
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have managed to get this working with 3.1.31-7. However, my kernel > drivers are selected for a driver 'orinoco' while the pcmcia package > based drivers are wlan_cs. The wlan_cs drivers are the older drivers > for the D-Link DWL-650 and are being repl

Re: 2.4.17 kernel & pcmcia problem

2002-02-20 Thread Brian Mays
Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think orinoco cards can be classed as either rare or crappy > - but their module has definitely changed names, and *that* was > dependent on the kernel rev. Apples ... oranges. I was *not* talking about orinoco cards. However, since you have brought

Re: PCMCIA network problems at startup

2002-04-03 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua Penix) wrote: > Running Debian Woody on a Gateway Solo 9100 laptop, with an Intel > Pro/100 CardBus II (eepro100_cb.o driver) network card, pulling a DHCP > address using dhclient. > > When I boot the laptop, everything appears to get recognized > correctly, but I am una

Re: pcmcia load at boot

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
> I run sid on a Toshiba Portege 3480, and if I have some questions about > using a pcmcia network card. > > Is there some deep reason that the pcmcia startup script (in init.d) isn't > run until runlevel 2? Since the ifupdown stuff is in rcS.d this means that > the pcmcia card won't be configure

Re: pcmcia load at boot

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrik Andreasen) asked: > ... it turns out that the actual issue wasn't when the pcmcia drivers > was loaded (although there was a deep reason for when to load the > drivers of course), but this: > > If I boot the machine with no card inserted, I then have to insert > the card

Re: pcmcia load at boot

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
Patrik Andreasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my /etc/network/interfaces contains: > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > ... plus some comments. So I should remove "auto eth0"? Patrik - Thanks for following up on this. Yes. You should remove the "auto et

Re: problems with pcmcia cardmgr

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel Parsons) wrote: > I'm trying to set up pcmcia support on a debian potato sytem. When you > start up the init script "pcmcia start" it seems to start, but no > beeps. a quick check of "pcmcia status" reveals that it's stopped. I > looked in the logs (/var/log/daemon.log)

Re: PCMCIA network problems at startup

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
Joshua Penix wrote: > I'm a bit confused about the interaction between > /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. My > understanding is that the information in /etc/network/interfaces takes > precedence, and eliminates the need to set anything in network.opts. Josh - Network.opts h

Re: PCMCIA network problems at startup

2002-04-04 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("A. Demarteau (linux rules!)") wrote: > the ifup and ifdown scripts are afaik not called upon insertion of a > pcmcia card. They are in the newer versions of the pcmcia-cs package. The ifup script will configure a network interface on startup only if there is an "auto eth0" (

Re: pcmcia

2002-04-13 Thread Brian Mays
> I am running debian 2.2.20 sid on a laptop and I am haveing trouble > with the pcmcia card. It starts after the nettwork and couses the > pc to boot without getting an address from dhcp. I need to run > /etc/init.d/networking restart everytime I have booted up. How can I > get the pcmcia card