pcmcia on Suse 8.0

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:50:10 PDT 2004


On 07/29/03 05:44, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> 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:
>>>>
>>>>>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"
> 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.

So what do you get from:
grep -r axnet *

when run from inside of /etc/pcmcia ?

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