pcmcia on Suse 8.0

[Rick Sivernell]

On 28 Jul 2003 22:50:24 -0600
Ralph Sanford <rsanford at telusplanet.net> wrote:

> 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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Ralph

I have not found where the axnet_cs is loaded. I have tried all suggestions and
do appreciate the help. I am stepping back and see what I can do next.

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