[Trinux-talk] Re: Trinux pcmcia -smc

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

Yep. the 8390.o was missing. I've built the modules for 2.4.19 and will
release a floppy that should work and a bootable CD-ROM with working
PCMCIA tonight. :)

- mdf


> Thanks for the prompt reply. I see your change, but now I get these error
> messages:
> 
> cardmgr[187]: watching 2 sockets
> cardmgr[187]: initializing socket 1
> cardmgr[187]: socket 1 : SMC 10/100 PC Card
> cardmgr[187]: module/lib/modules/2.4.5/net/8390.o not available
> cardmgr[187]: executing: 'modprobe 8390'
> cardmgr[187]: modprobe exited with status 2
> cardmgr[187]: executing: 'insmod/lib/modules/2.4.5/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o'
> ....followed by a "Resource temporarily unavailable"
> 
> Art
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Franz" <mf...@ci...>
> To: "Arthur Davis" <art...@ie...>
> Cc: <tri...@ci...>
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 12:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Trinux pcmcia -smc
> 
> 
> > > I am trying to configure it to support my SMC 8041 PCMCIA, and I
> followed these directions, per SMC:
> > >
> > >        If the file /etc/pcmcia/config exists,add following
> > >        lines in this file:
> > >
> > >        card "SMC 10/100 PC Card"
> > >        version "SMC", "8041TX-10/100-PC-Card"
> > >        bind "pcnet_cs"
> > >
> > > The problem is, savecfg doesn't save /etc/pcmcia/, so the changes are
> lost when I reboot.  I've tried to edit the file (via nano) on another box,
> but Trinux doesn't like the resulting .tgz.  I could restart it manually,
> what's the Trinux equivalent of "/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart"?
> > >
> >
> > 1) As you can see--/etc/init.d/pcmcia is pretty stupid. If you want to
> > restart pcmcia, killall cardmgr and then run cardmgr
> >
> > #/etc/init.d/pcmcia
> > echo "Starting PCMCIA card services"
> > insmod pcmcia_core
> > insmod i82365
> > insmod ds
> > echo "Waiting for kernel modules to settle..."
> > sleep 4
> > echo "Starting cardmgr...."
> > cardmgr
> > echo "Waiting some more...."
> > sleep 3
> > echo "Attempting to configure network..."
> > netcfg
> >
> > You'll also need http://trinux.sf.net/pkg/2.4.5/pcmcia-pcnet.tgz
> >
> > 2) I updated the /etc/pcmcia/config file in the pcmcia-bin.tgz package
> > available withint http://trinux.sf.net/pkg/
> >
> > 3) The ability to override files (especially config files) within a
> > tarball is something I'm thinking about and your question is a good
> > example why. Basically what I'm planning is a "virtual" etc directory on
> > the boot device (/tux/config/vetc) that would contain config files that
> > would overwrite what is inside the tarball.
> >
> > - mdf
> >
> 
> 
> 

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Matthew Franz                 mf...@ci...
Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group (CIAG)
Cisco Systems, Inc.                 Austin, TX