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RE: [Trinux-talk] pcmcia problems

[<pm...@de...>]

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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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
>
> --
> Michael Styer		ma...@co...
> phone: 020 7603 5723	107 Shepherd's Bush Rd
> fax: 020 7603 2504	London W6 7LP
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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

-- 
Michael Styer		ma...@co...
phone: 020 7603 5723	107 Shepherd's Bush Rd
fax: 020 7603 2504	London W6 7LP

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
>
> --
> Michael Styer		ma...@co...
> phone: 020 7603 5723	107 Shepherd's Bush Rd
> fax: 020 7603 2504	London W6 7LP
>
>
>