RE: [Trinux-talk] pcmcia problems

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

Does this problem exist in Tim Burton's .iso image as well, because the
.iso I released (80rc2) is missing a package or two. Hence the need for
the workaround.

-mdf


On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 pm...@de... wrote:

> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:36:39 +1300
> From: pm...@de...
> To: ma...@co..., tri...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Trinux-talk] pcmcia problems
>
> Hi Michael
>
> I have had similar problems to yours.  A workaround that was suggested to me
> was to manually unpack the required driver files after the system has
> booted.
>
> To test if this will work do it manually first.
> mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
> tar -C / -xzvf /cdrom/trinux/pcmcia-bin.tgz
> tar -C / -xzvf /cdrom/trinux/pcmcia-coremods.tgz
> tar -C / -xzvf /cdrom/trinux/<whatever other driver files you need>
>
> Then initialise pcmcia
>
> /etc/pcmcia
>
> If this works dump all this into the "last" start-up script and you should
> be away.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> If anyone knows of a better way to do this please let me know.
>
> Phill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Styer [mailto:ma...@co...]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2001 8:24 a.m.
> To: tri...@li...
> Subject: [Trinux-talk] pcmcia problems
>
>
> Hi there.
>
> I'm trying to use trinux from the boot CD on my laptop, a toshiba
> satellite 335cdt. It boots fine, but doesn't recognize my ethernet
> card. The card type is 3Com Megahertz XJ10BT. According to some research,
> the necessary driver is smc91c92_cs.o, which seems to be on the CD, but
> doesn't seem to be loaded at boot-up. How can I tell whether it has been
> loaded? If it's not getting loaded, how can I make sure it gets loaded? If
> it is getting loaded, how can I get trinux to recognize my ethernet card?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -mas
>
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