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  1. #1
    Scyber Guest

    FC2 & PCMCIA Wireless card

    I orginally posted this in the networking forum here:

    I just did a clean install of FC2 and I am having a problem getting my Lucent WaveLan Silver card working on my laptop (Compaq Evo n160). During boot I get the following in /var/log/messages:
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    localhost network: Bringing up interface eth1: failed
    localhost ifup: orinoco_cs device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
    localhost ifup: interface 'eth1' not found
    localhost network: Bring up interface eth1: failed
    -------------------------------------------------------

    Now, I tried restarting networking after boot and get the same messages. I tried restarting pcmcia and I get:
    --------------------------------------------------
    Shutting down PCMCIA service: done.
    Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr[2839]: no sockets found!
    done.
    --------------------------------------------------

    I assume PCMCIA is the problem, but anyone have any suggestions? This worked out of the box on FC1 so I didn't run into any of these issues.

  2. #2
    Scyber Guest
    In the other thread, yesterday had this comment:

    Originally posted by Yestrday
    I am having the same problem and I believe it is a consequence of the kernel and some driver differences with 2.4.

    The installer detected an orinoco_cs run card in my machine (Toshiba 5105-S701) which returns the same error to me as you got.

    I hope this has an easy fix, I would really like to upgrade to FC2.

  3. #3
    simbateman Guest

    Dell Inspiron 8100

    I am also having this same problem on a fresh install of FC2 today. I hope someone has a solution.

    TIA

  4. #4
    rivvah Guest
    I am having the same problem - so far what I've figured out is that in /etc/init.d/pcmcia, there's a line that greps /proc/devices for the string 'pcmcia', and if it's not found it modprobes the yenta_socket.

    On FC1 apparently this line isn't there on boot, but in FC2 it is; so the grep fails and the modprobe never happens. Probably a 2.4 -> 2.6 ACPI thing, who knows.

    I'm going to hack that to do something like "lsmod | grep yenta_socket" or similar to get around the problem. More proper solutions welcome.

  5. #5
    Scyber Guest
    Let us know if that definately solves the problem. I left my laptop at work so I can't try it out till tommorrow.

  6. #6
    rivvah Guest
    It seems to so far if you jiggle the subsytem a little; I replaced the line:

    if ! grep -q pcmcia /proc/devices

    with

    if ! /sbin/lsmod | grep -q $PCIC

    That at least loads the yenta_socket and all that jazz. The rest of it I'm not sure what was wrong (I have an internal eth0, and an orinoco pccard on eth1) but after a few pcmcia stop/starts and pulling the card out and in, it finally was recognized and came online.

    It's working now, apt-getting the latest updates. Not sure how it's going to react on boot, may take a few tweaks - whatever the cause, it sure seems like pcmcia is broken.

  7. #7
    simbateman Guest

    Hack Confirmed

    Well I was also able to get rivvah's hack to work. but it doesnt work on boot and it doesnt work with a pcmcia restart. but if i stop it, then start it. the card fires up.

    Seems kinda slow though, like maybe its not loading up all that it should be. But at least I can read the forums from the couch! =)

  8. #8
    rivvah Guest
    Yah I found the same thing -- here's my final hackery so far:

    1) replace that line in init.d/pcmcia
    2) set ONBOOT=no for eth1 (wireless)
    3) after system is booted, run '/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart'

    This has at least worked consistently for me, so the last thing to figure out is why it doesn't work initially on boot. Perhaps moving the pcmcia initalization after some other script...?

  9. #9
    Xyzzy Guest

  10. #10
    TalonAI Guest

    quickfix

    this will get you running once u are set logged in

    @ terminal enter as root

    /sbin/modprobe yenta_socket
    then
    /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart

  11. #11
    Scyber Guest
    ignore this message. It is working now.
    Last edited by Scyber; 22nd May 2004 at 02:33 PM.

  12. #12
    imnes Guest
    Why does it work now? What was the final fix? I have this exact same problem on my system

    Nick

  13. #13
    Scyber Guest
    Originally posted by imnes
    Why does it work now? What was the final fix? I have this exact same problem on my system
    Exactly what rivvah posted earlier in the thread worked for me.

  14. #14
    k4dgw Guest
    In the /etc/modprobe.conf file I put a # in front of the line "alias eth1 orinoco_cs" so it looked like this.

    #alias eth1 orinoco_cs

    Now it starts automatically and I do not have to do the modprobe yenta_socket. Found this in bugzilla.

    Dave

  15. #15
    rivvah Guest
    The newest kernel also fixes the problem of having to run /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart; I just upgraded to 2.6.6-1.435 (without touching anything else) and it now fires up on boot with the previous fixes in place.

    (my alias eth1 line is NOT commented out)

    -te

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