[SLE] PCMCIA upgrade breaks SuSE-6.4
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I recently upgraded my laptop PCMCIA to 3.1.20, which I hand rolled from source onto an equally hand rolled 2.2.17 kernel. It breaks the network at boot time - the network is not started. I have to run "/sbin/init.d/network start eth0" manually, then it works fine. The ethernet card, a Xircom tulip based one, is correctly detected and configured, and it worked fine on PCMCIA 3.1.14. I tried going back to the SuSE 2.2.14 laptop kernel from my 6.4 distro but that doesn't work either. Anyone know why? Or better, have a solution? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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Derek Fountain wrote:
I recently upgraded my laptop PCMCIA to 3.1.20, which I hand rolled from source onto an equally hand rolled 2.2.17 kernel. It breaks the network at boot time - the network is not started. I have to run "/sbin/init.d/network start eth0" manually, then it works fine. The ethernet card, a Xircom
The standard pcmcia package is configured differently e.g. not from yast. So remove/disable the interface in yast and edit /etc/pcmcia/network.conf appropriately. BB, Arjen -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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I don't know if this is relevant (being a complete novice) but when I upgraded the pcmcia in 6.2 (in order to get my card recognised) I now find the network link will only come up if I ping the router for about 30 seconds. Shutmessage still says network was unreachable despite it working fine (I susopect this is something to do with a setting in yast - but it aint broke so I'm not fiddling) Francesco -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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