On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:49:46AM -0800, O. Sharp wrote: > > I've downloaded and tried it, and unfortunately it doesn't solve the > > problem. The 'modprobe -v i82365' failure showed up again early on, and > > then reappeared whenever an attempt to access network hardware was made. > > Any chance your laptop does NOT have an i82365 pcmcia controller? Maybe > it is yenta or one of the other options instead.
Well, if so the installer is as ignorant of it as I am. :) lspci reports the PCMCIA bridge as a Cirrus Logic CL 6729 (rev ee). I haven't found any definitive list of which driver is used for which types of controllers, but I did come across a Red Hat posting saying the CL 6729 was driven by i82365 and not yentl: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34301#c5 Does this seem correct for Debian as well? That poster also offers a solution for their situation which (if I'm reading it right) suggests making some changes in /etc/pcmcia.conf, but since the installer didn't _create_ any /etc/pcmcia.conf here it doesn't help me much, whether it's correct for my hardware or not. :) > Anything in lspci that might give a clue? Here's the PCMCIA-oriented stuff from lspci -v: 0000:00:0d.0 PCMCIA bridge: Cirrus Logic CL 6729 (rev ee) Flags: stepping, slow level I/O ports at fcfc [disabled] [size=4] ...And here's something: I found a posting about CL 6729 drivers on a Debian help list which looks pretty relevant, evidently a quote from the author of the i82365 module: (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/01/msg00066.html) " This is sort of a historical accident. Prior to 2.4 kernels, there were only the pcmcia-cs driver modules. With 2.4, PCMCIA drivers became part of the kernel tree but they were not 100% the same as the pcmcia-cs drivers. One of the differences was that the CL 6729 bridge was not supported by the kernel drivers. There is a CL 6729 driver for the current 2.6 kernels but I think it is recent enough that it probably is not in most current Linux distributions. It is possible to use the pcmcia-cs drivers with 2.4 (but not 2.6) kernels. You would need to remove the kernel PCMCIA driver modules, and then compile the pcmcia-cs package. " Soooo... would I be right in guessing the updated CL 6729 drivers haven't yet made it into the Debian installs I've tried (sarge and etch beta-1)? If so, can you suggest an alternative? ...So far I'm enjoying learning Linux, but I didn't realize what the learning-curve was going to be like. :) :) Thanks! -O.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
