pcmcia on Suse 8.0

[Ralph Sanford]

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 22:02, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 07/28/03 19:53, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:59:40 -0400
> > dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>quoth Rick Sivernell:
> >>| Suse users needed<g>
> >>|
> >>|    Got myself a copy of suse 8.0 pro. most evertything is working ok,
> >>| but not ifconfig. This was a full fresh install over Caldera 3.1.1.
> >>| Now cardctl status ident and config is proper as it should be. pcmcia
> >>| start says it is ok but when I do ifconfig all I get is lo setup and
> >>| running. it seems to be about one step away from complete. I set
> >>| everythoing per Yast2, but that failed to set
> >>| /etc/pcmcia/network.opts at all. I fixed that, Not sure what to do
> >>| next here.
> >>|
> > DEP
> > 
> >    Suse Installed lilo, I did find a acpi=y set it to off and rebooted. no joy.
> > I have found that the system is using axnet_ca it should be pcnet_cs. Can not
> > find where to change it at. Found it on the last line of dmesg. boot fine and
> > acts as if pcmcia is ready, dongle has all lights bright, cardctl says it is good
> > and it finds the proper card Linksys pcmpc 100. just no ifconfig for pcmcia.
> 
> 
> I think the pcmcia modules are defined somewhere like 
> /etc/pcmcia/pcmcia.opts.  grep through /etc/pcmcia, assuming that SuSE puts 
> their pcmcia stuff in there.


Try /etc/pcmcia/config or /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf
Find your card and see what SuSE has bound it to.  If SuSE shows it as
bind "axnet_cs" then change it to read bind "pcnet_cs"

Hope this helps.

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