RE: [Trinux-talk] pcmcia problems

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

Michael,

I am *very* close to having a new initrd.gz to use and hope to burn a
small test CD for folks to test today. This will be targetted for laptop
users because none of the existing ISO's work.

I have changed the directory structure so that within the hard drive/CD
you'll have the following:


/trinux
-> kpkg - kernel packages that will get loaded automatically
-> bootpkg - manditory packages (such as dnslibs,dhcpcd,and the pcmcia)
             that will gut loaded automatically
-> pkg - will get loaded based on the pkglist

Flopiies will also have a kpkg and bootpkg directory but it will be on the
floppy root

If anytbody is adventurous the latest initrd.gz are alwasy at
http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/initrd/ and the .tgz file is the source.


Package loading from a vfat/minix partition works and booting from a DOS
partition using Loadlin (and obviously loading the packages

>
> 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?

Yes that would work, but on the tnew structure you could just put them in
bootpkg.

>
> 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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