Thanks. Guess I ought to have printed off the laptop howto before starting :-()
Patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 9:53 AM Subject: Re: PCMCIA nightmare - help! > > > In a wild fit of Debian advocacy, I persuaded a colleague at work to > > partition the hard disk on his portable and install Debian. > > good for both of you :-) > > > Installation was a breeze...it put the PCMCIA stuff in and booted nicely > > with beeps and so on. But it had lost all the IP info and ifconfig eth0 > > got no such device errors. > > > > This is a real embarrassment. I have modprobed made sure the xirc2ps_cs > > module is loaded but no joy...I cannot configure a network. No such > > device type messages. Interface not recognised. > > most likely one of three things is happening. > > * you're pcmcia card isn't supported under linux (or isn't supported in the > main release). > > * you have a hardware conflict. check your messages log file and if so > there should be some hints. you can also check /proc/interrupts and > /proc/ioports to see if everything looks in order. > > * you have a your pcmcia slots on the laptop are cardbus. even if the card > itself isn't cardbus you will need to make sure that you are running a > fairly recent pcmcia package (i believe the ones with slink are too old). > > download the latest ones for your kernel and it should all spring to life. > > > Is there some obvious mistake I've made? For example, is the PCMCIA > > card called eth0? Or is there somewhere to find error messages? > > it's still called eth0 as pcmica device. the only thing that's differnt is > the modules that will be loaded. > > also check the linux laptop page for a laptop similar to the one your > installing on. it's possible there are tricks to it. > > adam. > >
