problems with 2.4.18 & networking

[Net Llama]

--- "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:30:35 -0800 (PST)
> begin  Net Llama <beemer9 at yahoo.com> spewed forth:
> 
> [snip]
> > 
> > Socket 0: CardBus hotplug device
> 
> not good.  Should tell you what's plugged in.

Yea, i thought as much.  But it does work under RedHat (i know that's
not saying much).

> > > 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.

I did compile it all in.

> > 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.

OK, well, i just looked through the /etc/pcmcia/config that the new
version of pcmcia-cs installed and there's no entry for the exact Xircom
card that i have.  Oddly, the older version of config that came with
RH7.2 does have an entry.  Copying the old one back into place seems to
break the new version of cardmgr completely.  ick.

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

Nope.  I have S10network and S45pcmcia.

> 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).  

I've used tcpdump on my server & desktop boxes, where i've traditionally
compiled the af_packet support.  But i try to build realy, really small
kernels on my laptop (now laptops) since they're not terribly powerful.

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