hey, i just upgraded a toshiba laptop that i have run 6.4, 7.1, & 7.2 on, to 8.1..................(just to see what all the fuss was), wow! what a change.........install was a chore as this machine won't boot from cd, i went through a whole pile of floppys before i found a few good ones to create boot and modules disks.........anyway my problem is during install, via NFS the pcmcia card worked fine - but after rebooting, the cards don't seem to be working or the card services are not starting during boot............the whole sysconfig thing is new to me and so is this "hotplug" stuff, can anyone explain how pcmcia card services are supposed to start now? i don't see anything in yast hardware about pcmcia, i did find and set up the network card, which BTW, i don't think i should have had to do AGAIN.............. TIA, -don -- ------------------------------- proud linux user since kernel 1.1.54
On Sunday 03 November 2002 09:38 am, Donald Knecht wrote:
hey, i just upgraded a toshiba laptop that i have run 6.4, 7.1, & 7.2 on, to 8.1..................(just to see what all the fuss was), wow! what a change.........install was a chore as this machine won't boot from cd, i went through a whole pile of floppys before i found a few good ones to create boot and modules disks.........anyway my problem is during install, via NFS the pcmcia card worked fine - but after rebooting, the cards don't seem to be working or the card services are not starting during boot............the whole sysconfig thing is new to me and so is this "hotplug" stuff, can anyone explain how pcmcia card services are supposed to start now? i don't see anything in yast hardware about pcmcia, i did find and set up the network card, which BTW, i don't think i should have had to do AGAIN..............
TIA, -don
-- _________________________________________________ No I Don't Yahoo! And I'm getting pretty sick of being asked if I do. _________________________________________________ John Andersen / Juneau Alaska
On Sunday 03 November 2002 09:38 am, Donald Knecht wrote:
hey, i just upgraded a toshiba laptop that i have run 6.4, 7.1, & 7.2 on, to 8.1..................(just to see what all the fuss was), wow! what a change.........install was a chore as this machine won't boot from cd, i went through a whole pile of floppys before i found a few good ones to create boot and modules disks.........anyway my problem is during install, via NFS the pcmcia card worked fine - but after rebooting, the cards don't seem to be working or the card services are not starting during boot............the whole sysconfig thing is new to me and so is this "hotplug" stuff, can anyone explain how pcmcia card services are supposed to start now? i don't see anything in yast hardware about pcmcia, i did find and set up the network card, which BTW, i don't think i should have had to do AGAIN..............
Sorry for my prior empty post. Fingers got away from me.... There is a big write up about this in the manual and also on the suse knowledge base, but they send you on a bit of a wild goose chase for a very simple solution. In /etc/sysconfig you will find a file called pcmcia. In pcmcia you will find this line PCMCIA_SYSTEM="kernel" Change it to read PCMCIA_SYSTEM="external" Then reboot. The install used pcmcia as a module, and thats why it worked for the install. Then at first boot it switches over to kernel pcmcia support for some unknown reason, and that fails sometimes. Failed for my laptop too. -- _________________________________________________ No I Don't Yahoo! And I'm getting pretty sick of being asked if I do. _________________________________________________ John Andersen / Juneau Alaska
I'm having a problem with SuSE PCMCIA Drivers. I have two laptops - a Toshiba Portage 667CDT and a Gateway Solo 9100 The Portage has 7.3 loaded and the Solo has 8.1 loaded. Neither one of them will access the network through the PCMCIA network cards (both 3com, both supported). I have tried using external drivers, and doing that allows cardinfo to properly identify all the cards (the kernel drivers seem to be hit and miss). I've done everything specified in the documentation, but no joy. I'm about at my wit's end, but I really need to get the network (at least) working. Does anyone have any advice for me? Thanks in advance -Dan
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