Hi all, I have a strange PCMCIA problem. This is a laptop that I originally installed Slink on about 18 months ago. Upgraded to unstable soon after and have run unstable since. Sometime last summer I did a fresh install when the Potato boot floppies became stable. I don't remember the last time I upgraded packages so it's long enough ago that I doubt the problem is a new package.
Anyway, right now my PCMCIA is totally hosed. Cardmgr is failing with the following messages: open_sock (socket 0) failed: Permission denied no sockets found! The pcmcia_core, i82365, and ds modules are loaded. When I insert my ethernet card it is recognized (no beep, but it logs the insertion and removal). This is the second time this same problem has happened to me in the last couple weeks. The first time was apparently caused by my installing lm_sensors. I couldn't get the thing fixed and resorted to reinstalling from a recent backup. Now this time it appears to have been caused by installation of a new kernel (not a new version just different compile options). I am running 2.2.17 and pcmcia 3.1.21. As before, I ununstalled the stuff I had just installed and it still doesn't work. Compiled a new kernel with old options, also recompiled pcmcia, also tried using pcmcia 3.1.8 since I had a copy of that as well. The hardware is fine - works in windows, and also I did a quick first-stage potato install and it brings up the ethernet card fine in that situation. I'm stuck. Any help is greatly appreciated. -Steve Stancliff
