RE: [Trinux-talk] pcmcia problems

[Michael S. <ma...@co...>]

Hi there,

thanks for your advice. I haven't tried booting from the Tim Burton's
image yet, but I did notice that both images are missing the pcmcia-bin
package. I discovered that when I tried to use Phill's suggestion below
and couldn't because that package was missing. So, I'm guessing that I'll
have the same problem when booting from the tburt image.

Before I burn a new cd, though, I have a couple more questions. First,
what significance do the modules in the trinux/modules directory on the CD
have? If they're automatically loaded when the system boots, why are there
also packages that have those modules in them? If they're not
automatically loaded, and should be loaded via their corresponding
packages, why are they there?

Second, if I want to load the pcmcia packages I need on boot-up
(specifically, pcmcia-bin, pcmcia-coremods, and pcmcia-smc), will listing
those names in trinux/tux/config/pkglist do it? If not, what else do I
have to do?

Thanks for your help.

-mas

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Matthew Franz wrote:

> 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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