problems with 2.4.18 & networking

[David A. Bandel]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:30:35 -0800 (PST)
begin  Net Llama <beemer9 at yahoo.com> spewed forth:

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> 
> Socket 0: CardBus hotplug device

not good.  Should tell you what's plugged in.

> Socket 1: empty
> 
> 
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> > 
> > Sure you have the cardbus module the Xircom requires?  
> 
> Hrmmm...it appears that I am missing a few under 2.4.18, namely:
> yenta_socket
> pcmcia_core

Well, without yenta_soket, you have no cardbus support.  i82365 is 16 bit
only.  And without pcmcia_core (sure you didn't compile this in?) pcmcia
won't run.  period.

> 
> However, i'm fairly certain that I compiled them into the kernel, rather
> than making them modular.  Actually, if I restart the network service,
> eth0 comes up, and i can ping out.  So, i'm guessing I need to add an
> alias entry into modules.conf for xircom_cb so that it will get loaded
> on bootup.  So, i guess the only remaining mystery here is why does eth0
> come up on its own when booting into the RH kernel, but not mine?

The call to xircom_cb should be in /etc/pcmcia/config or some such
(where's my notebook when I need it?).  It's based on what the card
returns, then binds xircom_cb.  pcmcia doesn't use modules.conf.

Perhaps RH is firing up pcmcia before networking, and whatever you're
using does it the other way around?

> 
> Thanks for you help, David, i appreciate it.

No problem.

As for packet socket.  You probably didn't use arping before (or a number
of other network-related utilities like tcpdump, et. al.) that have always
required this.  I've never built a kernel without it (mostly because I've
_always_ needed it).  

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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