pcmcia problems

[jakebiesinger]

im currently running gentoo with a custom kernel, which has pcmcia support built in. I bought a new (old and used) ethernet card and have been trying to get it all to work right for about two days. I've emerged pcmcia-cs and added it to my boot via "rc-update add pcmcia boot", then restarted. The program found my Xircom card, but the "modprobe" portion says "can't locate module "xirc2ps_cs" it then exited with status 255

umm...so what now?:confused:

[jakebiesinger]

in kde, the info center now registers PCMCIA and shows a Xircom card... so is it installed?

[bosox79]

Originally posted by jakebiesinger
in kde, the info center now registers PCMCIA and shows a Xircom card... so is it installed?

what does the lsmod (thats a small L) command show when you run it from a konsole? does it list the correct module for your card? if the the info center see's the card then it is most likley loaded:D

[jakebiesinger]

well, i ran lsmod and it shows my sound card, my ieee1394 and ohci 1394. i don't know what the ohci is, but it is marked unused.

so does that mean i installed incorrectly? or just that its not a module or what?

[jakebiesinger]

also, shouldnt i have an eth0 or something under dev? theres nothing like it..... (im a newbie....):rolleyes:

[bosox79]

Originally posted by jakebiesinger
well, i ran lsmod and it shows my sound card, my ieee1394 and ohci 1394. i don't know what the ohci is, but it is marked unused.

so does that mean i installed incorrectly? or just that its not a module or what?

I don't have a laptop myself, does the info center list a module for your PCMCIA card. if so what is it & did lsmod list it? as for your nic what does ifconfig show? it should show that your nic card is active ( I assume you have been able to download packages ) if that does not show your nic card module then try ifconfig -a to display the status of all the NIC modules loaded into your kernel. check out this link for more info http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/ifconfig.8.html

also did you compile your kernel with the correct nic module? what card do you have? I do'nt currently have a gentoo box myself:D

[jakebiesinger]

ok so as it turns out, I hadn't included the correct modules in my kernel and after a bit of work, it has been recognized...

BUT

there is still a problem. dmesg is still giving me funny messages. Maybe a big clue for this one is that when I eject the card, i get a beep and it's not registered in lsmod anymore, but then when I try to plug it back in, nothing happens and a new message appears in dmesg that says that the voltage query to the card timed out. Also, there are no LED's lit up on the card. Perhaps it's a faulty card?

[bosox79]

Originally posted by jakebiesinger
ok so as it turns out, I hadn't included the correct modules in my kernel and after a bit of work, it has been recognized...

BUT

there is still a problem. dmesg is still giving me funny messages. Maybe a big clue for this one is that when I eject the card, i get a beep and it's not registered in lsmod anymore, but then when I try to plug it back in, nothing happens and a new message appears in dmesg that says that the voltage query to the card timed out. Also, there are no LED's lit up on the card. Perhaps it's a faulty card?


can you post all the messages from dmesg? do you have another box and or OS to test the card in by chance? to see if the card works?

[jakebiesinger]

ok so STILL working on pcmcia....

The voltage problem has mysteriously disappeared....lsmod registers it fine now when i put it in and it is cleared when I take it out, but now the info from dmesg is as follows, as logged on bootup as well as when re-inserting my card:

xirc2ps_cs.c 1.31 1998/12/09 19:32:55 (dd9jn+kvh)
xirc2ps_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use

also, on bootup, kde recognizes it as a xircom card, but when i unplug and reinsert the card, it doesn't anymore.

So is it a card problem do you think? Or is it just still not set up right?

[bosox79]

Originally posted by jakebiesinger
ok so STILL working on pcmcia....

The voltage problem has mysteriously disappeared....lsmod registers it fine now when i put it in and it is cleared when I take it out, but now the info from dmesg is as follows, as logged on bootup as well as when re-inserting my card:

xirc2ps_cs.c 1.31 1998/12/09 19:32:55 (dd9jn+kvh)
xirc2ps_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use

also, on bootup, kde recognizes it as a xircom card, but when i unplug and reinsert the card, it doesn't anymore.

So is it a card problem do you think? Or is it just still not set up right?

From the dmesg error it looks like you are having an irq conflict, try disabling plug N play in your bios PNP, then try removing and reinstalling the card again. let me know what happens:D

[jakebiesinger]

is there any way I can get into my BIOS manually? I guess I'm used to just hitting delete and jumping right into it, but that isn't working at all... nor is F10, F12, F6- all hit in rapid succession....so umm....... yah. I'm at a loss. (Thanks for holding my hand on this)

[jakebiesinger]

just making sure...I'm looking in dmesg and a whole lot of devices are being assigned to IRQ 9. Is that a problem? they say they're all sharing it...

[jakebiesinger]

okey dokey. Deactivated Plug and play from OS. It did nothing. am still getting same error message. Well, the last thought that I have is that my cardmgr on bootup attempts the modprobe and then i get the error message:

get dev info on socket 1 failed: No such device

from cardmgr... a problem?

[bosox79]

Originally posted by jakebiesinger
okey dokey. Deactivated Plug and play from OS. It did nothing. am still getting same error message. Well, the last thought that I have is that my cardmgr on bootup attempts the modprobe and then i get the error message:

get dev info on socket 1 failed: No such device

from cardmgr... a problem?

This sounds like it could be a hardware problem do you have another card you could swap? or another box to try your current card in?