Re: [SLE] PCMCIA Card and SuSE 8.0

4 May 2002

      Well I have an orinoco-silver wireless

I read the info in the unofficial suse faq and got it going
however I am using the USE_SUSE_NETWORK_SETUP=yes
which is different to the faq

Have you had you pc-card working in a previous installation of linux/suse ?

You need to make sure that /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia has the correct options for 
you, I have to exclude certain interrupts in 
PCMCIA_PCIC_OPTS="irq_list=10,11,12,13" for my setup.
I have set the PCMCIA_SYSTEM to "kernel" the default.

Then I had to go into /etc/pcmcia and I think yast set network.opts to the 
following ...
( I think yast may have done this for me )

USE_SUSE_NETWORK_SETUP=yes                                                                                                                     

# !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!!                                                                                  

case "$ADDRESS" in                                                                                                                             
*,*,*,*)                                                                                                                                       
    INFO="Sample private network setup"                                                                                                        
    # Transceiver selection, for some cards -- see 'man ifport'                                                                                
    IF_PORT=""                                                                                                                                 
    # Use BOOTP (via /sbin/bootpc, or /sbin/pump)? [y/n]                                                                                       
    BOOTP="n"                                                                                                                                  
    # Use DHCP (via /sbin/dhcpcd, /sbin/dhclient, or /sbin/pump)? [y/n]                                                                        
    DHCP="n"                                                                                                                                   
    # If you need to explicitly specify a hostname for DHCP requests                                                                           
    DHCP_HOSTNAME=""                                                                                                                           
    # Host's IP address, netmask, network address, broadcast address                                                                           
    IPADDR=""                                                                                                                                  
    NETMASK="255.255.255.0"                                                                                                                    
    NETWORK="192.168.0.2"                                                                                                                      
    BROADCAST="192.168.0.255"                                                                                                                  
    # Gateway address for static routing                                                                                                       
    GATEWAY="192.168.0.98"                                                                                                                     
    # Things to add to /etc/resolv.conf for this interface                                                                                     
    DOMAIN="diddyland.top"                                                                                                                     
    SEARCH=""                                                                                                                                  
    DNS_1="192.168.0.98"                                                                                                                       
    DNS_2=""                                                                                                                                   
    DNS_3=""                                                                                                                                   
    # NFS mounts, should be listed in /etc/fstab                                                                                               
    MOUNTS=""                                                                                                                                  
    # If you need to override the interface's MTU...                                                                                           
    MTU=""                                                                                                                                     
    # For IPX interfaces, the frame type and network number                                                                                    
    IPX_FRAME=""                                                                                                                               
    IPX_NETNUM=""                                                                                                                              
    # Extra stuff to do after setting up the interface                                                                                         
    start_fn () { return; }                                                                                                                    
    # Extra stuff to do before shutting down the interface                                                                                     
    stop_fn () { return; }                                                                                                                     
    # Card eject policy options      

As Im using wireless I also had to edit the wireless.opts file
and also the wlan_ng.conf file as described in the faq.

you may need to look at /var/log/messages to see what the pc-card is doing

dids

On Saturday 04 May 2002 08:31, Brian W. Carver wrote:
...
Is everyone else's laptop cruising the internet on 8.0 just fine and
it's only my PCMCIA card that I can't get working?  Can someone point me
to a list that might be able to address this problem?
The PCMCIA HOWTO at:
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.3 says
"If you get ``Network is unreachable'' messages when you try to access
the network, then the routing information specified in
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts is incorrect. This exact message is an
absolutely foolproof indication of a routing error. On the other hand,
mis-configured cards will usually fail silently."
I'm getting this message and so I checked my network.opts.
It has an early section like this:
# !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!!
USE_SUSE_NETWORK_SETUP=yes
# !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!! NEW !!!
and then gives a sample setup file.
So, it looks like SuSE is doing something "NEW" here and I wondered if
anyone knows if I can just set that to "no" and try to figure out what
options to select in network.opts the old way.  Below is the transcript
of my woes just getting this laptop on the internal network, which still
hasn't happened.
The SuSE page describing the new system doesn't really make sense to me,
but one thing I noticed is that I don't even have a
/etc/sysconfig/network/routes file. I tried reading about the routes
file to see if I could create one, but I don't understand what goes in
that first column called "Destination".  I'm probably just going to
hopelessly ruin the setup if I keep blindly trying things. Anyone with
some decent advice would be greatly appreciated.
Brian W. Carver wrote:
...
Still can't get PCMCIA network card to do anything on 8.0, but I did
manage to get some new errors, so here's an update. (Please help!)
ifup eth0 still says "No configuration found for eth0"
but since I have a file called ifcfg-eth-pcmcia-0 I thought I'd try
instead "ifup eth-pcmcia-0" to see what would happen. When I did that I
got: "ifup: Could not get a valid interface name: -> skipped"
It's a DLINK DFE 650 card and works fine in Windoze.
Also on start-up my xconsole has these two lines:
cardmgr[546]: config error, file 'config.add_kernel' line 322: unknown
device: 8139too
and
ifup: No configuration found for eth-pcmcia-1 eth0
which made me think to try
"ifup eth-pcmcia-0 eth0"
and then it finally said
Starting DHCP Client Daemon on eth0... . . . . . . . no IP address
yet...backgrounding.
I've waited a few minutes and pinging the server still gets me:
"Network is unreachable"
Any ideas?
Brian W. Carver wrote:
...
When I do ifup eth0 it says "No configuration found for eth0".
Which file is it missing?
In /etc/sysconfig/network I have:
config
dhcp
ifcfg-eth-pcmcia-0
ifcfg-lo
ifcfg.template
providers (dir)
scripts (dir)
wireless
The one that looks promising to me is ifcfg-eth-pcmcia-0. Here's what
it says:
BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
DHCLIENT_SET_DOWN_LINK="yes"
STARTMODE="hotplug"
UNIQUE=" "
device="eth-pcmcia-0"
Any ideas?
Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
...
* Brian Carver  [May 01. 2002 10:37]:
...
Hi,
I may have to call/e-mail SuSE on this, but before I tried that I
thought I'd ask here. I've installed 8.0 on a Sony PCG-F370 laptop
with not much trouble. The problem is that it doesn't seem to like
my D-Link PCMCIA network card, and so I can't get the laptop on the
internet (via my home lan).  The laptop connects fine when in
Windoze 98, so hardware issues are mostly ruled out.
After boot-up ifconfig shows that only the local loopback 127.0.0.1
is up and eth0 isn't even listed.  If I do 'ifconfig eth0 up' then
it will
Have you read how we redesigned network setup? (Try ifup eth0 instead
of using ifconfig)
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mmj_network80.html
There's also
http://sdb.suse.de/cgi-bin/sdbsearch_en.cgi?stichwort=80+pcmcia