[lug] PCMCIA ethernet issue

[Chris Riddoch]

Hi.

I'm running a debian system, and allowed my pcmcia-cs package to be
updated last Thursday. That upgrade went smoothly, as usual. Since
then, I've compiled and been running 2.4.17 - having had bad luck with
the pcmcia drivers in the kernel, I grabbed the pcmcia-cs source and
compiled those separately after the first boot of 2.4.17.

And my ethernet hasn't worked since then. Fortunately my PCMCIA modem
card works fine, which is why I haven't been so impatient to fix the
ethernet - though I'd like to have it fixed before (perhaps at) the
hacking society meeting tonight. I've been working with various
different versions of the drivers, compiled the source both for the
previously working version of pcmcia-cs that *did* work, the version I
got last week, and the latest version from the primary FTP site for
pcmcia-cs. They all give me something resembling this log, taken from
when I booted this morning:

Feb  7 09:31:12 laptop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-135
Feb  7 09:31:12 laptop cardmgr[7530]: socket 0: Serial or Modem
Feb  7 09:31:12 laptop cardmgr[7530]: executing: 'modprobe serial_cs'
Feb  7 09:31:13 laptop cardmgr[7530]: executing: './serial start ttyS3'
Feb  7 09:31:13 laptop kernel: ttyS03 at port 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Feb  7 09:31:13 laptop cardmgr[7530]: unsupported card in socket 1
Feb  7 09:31:14 laptop cardmgr[7530]:   product info: "Linksys", "EtherFast 10/100 PC Card (PCMPC100 V2)", "V2.0", " "
Feb  7 09:31:14 laptop cardmgr[7530]:   manfid: 0x0149, 0xc1ab  function: 6 (network)
Feb  7 09:31:14 laptop apmd[199]: Normal Resume after 07:50:30 (100% 2:44) AC power

It claims my card is unsupported. I don't buy it. It worked up until
last weekend's kernel change and pcmcia-cs recompile.

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