All, I have installed the 'latest stable' Debian version on an (old) Dell laptop Cpi D300XT. The initial install was done with the laptop in a docking station and using the network adaptor that comes with that docking station. Everything went fine. Later I removed the laptop from the docking station and tried to enable a PCMCIA Xircom CBEM56G network/modem card.
That is giving me a headache. The boot log contains ... Mon Sep 19 13:11:28 2005: Setting up networking...done. Mon Sep 19 13:11:29 2005: Starting hotplug subsystem: Mon Sep 19 13:11:29 2005: pci Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: usb-uhci: already loaded Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci.o: init_module: No such device Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci.o: insmod uhci failed Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: uhci: can't be loaded Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: missing kernel or user mode driver uhci Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: yenta_socket: already loaded Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: neofb: ignoring pci display module Mon Sep 19 13:11:30 2005: pci [success] Mon Sep 19 13:11:31 2005: usb Mon Sep 19 13:11:35 2005: usbcore: already loaded Mon Sep 19 13:11:35 2005: usbcore: already loaded Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: usb [success] Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: isapnp Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: isapnp [success] Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: ide Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: ide [success] Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: input Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: input [failed] Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: scsi Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: scsi [success] Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: done. Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Mon Sep 19 13:11:37 2005: Configuring network interfaces...Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005: All rights reserved. Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005: Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005: Please contribute if you find this software useful. Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html Mon Sep 19 13:11:38 2005: Mon Sep 19 13:11:39 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Mon Sep 19 13:11:40 2005: Bind socket to interface: No such device Mon Sep 19 13:11:40 2005: exiting. Mon Sep 19 13:11:40 2005: Failed to bring up eth0. Mon Sep 19 13:11:40 2005: done. ... After booting the card seems to be there (cardctl info shows it), but the network is not. If after booting I execute ifup -a it is enabled and the network works fine. I have tried to follow the procedure in http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#fr67 (10.10.2 Triggering network configuration - hotplug) but that does not help me (same problem). Anyone any thoughts or pointers to documentation to help me out with this, Thanks, Peter
