On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Neo wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:34, Jason Housewright wrote: > > I am in dire need of help...again. I have dl the > > netinst image from debian (the official for test). I > > cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it to > > recognize my pcmcia ethernet card. I have specified > > boot in the boot parameters, but pcmcia has not been > > turned on. I would really, really appreciate some > > direction here. I can't get any further than the > > "select network card" of the install. Thanks again. > > > > > > Jason Housewright > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > > > Hi Jason, > > am not an expert, but my pcmcia ethernetcard required > the loading of pcmcia modules in the kernel. This is fairly > simple to do, unless you need to compile them in the kernel, in > which case you're in whole new world of trouble/hurt/learning ;-). > > Loading pcmcia modules (when enabled in your kernel) > is fairly straigth forward: run as root 'lsmod', which shows the > currently loaded mdules. If there are no modules named 'pcmcia_core' > or such, you can start with 'modprobe pcmcia_core' which tries to > load the pcmcia modules. If this succeeds, (check with 'lsmod'), > you can try to load your apropriate network card driver with > 'modprobe <drivername>'. Your drivers can be found at > '/lib/modules/<kernel version>/pcmcia'. Work from there. Hi Jason, yes I agree you need to load the modules for the pcmcia interface and the ethernet card. Have you tried to get a copy of knoppix? If you can boot it from your laptop, you can run the lsmod from a root console and then you may then want to install knoppix ;-). -Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
