I have a fresh install of Slackware 10.0 on an old laptop and I'm
having trouble getting my PCMCIA controller to work. I've been reading
through the PCMCIA HOWTO, but with little luck thus far. When I run
"/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart" to try and start the device, the error
reads as follows:

Starting PCMCIA services:
<Probing for PCIC: edit rc.pcmcia>
cardmgr[265]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices

I tried to recompile the kernel with PCMCIA support built-in instead
of as a module, but no change. Any ideas? Admittedly, I'm kind of a
newbie when it comes to Linux hardware. The solution may be staring
me in the face, but I've never had this trouble before so I just don't
see it.


Regards,
David P. Donahue
ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu

cyber0ne wrote:
> I have a fresh install of Slackware 10.0 on an old laptop and I'm
> having trouble getting my PCMCIA controller to work. I've been reading
> through the PCMCIA HOWTO, but with little luck thus far. When I run
> "/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart" to try and start the device, the error
> reads as follows:
>
> Starting PCMCIA services:
> <Probing for PCIC: edit rc.pcmcia>
> cardmgr[265]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
>
> I tried to recompile the kernel with PCMCIA support built-in instead
> of as a module, but no change. Any ideas? Admittedly, I'm kind of a
> newbie when it comes to Linux hardware. The solution may be staring
> me in the face, but I've never had this trouble before so I just don't
> see it.
>
>
> Regards,
> David P. Donahue
> ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu

What card? It sounds like that is the driver your missing.

mAineAc

mAineAc wrote:

> cyber0ne wrote:
>
>> I have a fresh install of Slackware 10.0 on an old laptop and I'm
>> having trouble getting my PCMCIA controller to work. I've been reading
>> through the PCMCIA HOWTO, but with little luck thus far. When I run
>> "/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart" to try and start the device, the error
>> reads as follows:
>>
>> Starting PCMCIA services:
>> <Probing for PCIC: edit rc.pcmcia>
>> cardmgr[265]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
>>
>> I tried to recompile the kernel with PCMCIA support built-in instead
>> of as a module, but no change. Any ideas? Admittedly, I'm kind of a
>> newbie when it comes to Linux hardware. The solution may be staring
>> me in the face, but I've never had this trouble before so I just don't
>> see it.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> David P. Donahue
>> ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu
>
>
> What card? It sounds like that is the driver your missing.
>
> mAineAc
Sounds instead he gummed up the install, instead? I use a 3COM PCMCIA
network card in both slack 9.1 and 10. The PCMCIA support should
already be there. The particular card driver / module is a separate
issue. The 3COM network was also already built in - just needed to
configure the network.

If its an old laptop, maybe the PCMCIA is a wacky vintage. My laptop is
a IBM Thinkpad i1400 from 1998 and PCMCIA is recognized "automagically."

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:02:11 -0600, edkchem@netscape.net wrote:

[...]
> Sounds instead he gummed up the install, instead? I use a 3COM PCMCIA
> network card in both slack 9.1 and 10. The PCMCIA support should
> already be there. The particular card driver / module is a separate
> issue. The 3COM network was also already built in - just needed to
> configure the network.
>
> If its an old laptop, maybe the PCMCIA is a wacky vintage. My laptop is
> a IBM Thinkpad i1400 from 1998 and PCMCIA is recognized "automagically."

It also depends on the bridge you are using. I have one (TI1130),
which works with 16-bit cards only, when kernel PCMCIA support is
enabled (yenta). And the same bridge works with both 16- and 32-bit
cards, when I use original PCMCIA-CS package.


Best regards,

--
DIG (Dmitri I GOULIAEV)
Aahz's law: The best way to get information on usenet is
not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information.

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On 16 Oct 2004 07:45:14 -0700, cyber0ne
<ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu> probably wrote (unless it was a Kook):
> I have a fresh install of Slackware 10.0 on an old laptop and I'm
> having trouble getting my PCMCIA controller to work. I've been reading
> through the PCMCIA HOWTO, but with little luck thus far. When I run
> "/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart" to try and start the device, the error
> reads as follows:
>

What make and model are you using, and does it have 32-bit PCMCIA ports?
Most laptops before a PII may only have 16-bit PCMCIA ports, and usually
use the Yenta or i82356 (or some number) interface.


- --
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.' .' Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price -- WolfSkunk Designs
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The laptop is an old Compaq Presario 1080. It's something I picked up
for free because the backlight was broken (my KVM gets around that)
and I'm really not sure about the specifics of the hardware aside from
the major numbers (P1 133, 32MB, etc.) Are there any commands in
Linux I can use to discover information on the PCMCIA controller? I'm
googling for some info as well, but thus far no luck.


Regards,
David P. Donahue
ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu



Kelly Price <redwolf@pandora.orbl.org> wrote in message news:<slrncn3mku.a1b.redwolf@tygris.strw.org>...
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> On 16 Oct 2004 07:45:14 -0700, cyber0ne
> <ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu> probably wrote (unless it was a Kook):
> > I have a fresh install of Slackware 10.0 on an old laptop and I'm
> > having trouble getting my PCMCIA controller to work. I've been reading
> > through the PCMCIA HOWTO, but with little luck thus far. When I run
> > "/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart" to try and start the device, the error
> > reads as follows:
> >
>
> What make and model are you using, and does it have 32-bit PCMCIA ports?
> Most laptops before a PII may only have 16-bit PCMCIA ports, and usually
> use the Yenta or i82356 (or some number) interface.
>
>
> - --
> eval join"",map{chomp;s/^.+>\s*//;$_}grep{/>/}<DATA>; __DATA__
> .' .' Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price -- WolfSkunk Designs
> xX xX .' http://stalag99.net tygris @ same domain
> "X "X X .'
> _____. X" X > 0;
> XXXXXXXx. X".' > 0;
> '"XXXXXX| X > 0;
> "XXX| X" > 0;
> 'XX' > 0;
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFBcdhPRCiTQGVX194RAs3nAJ96Fkc5pf1srbeZLXkj/AqMTua0aACfYj/1
> vvkSK+qGlAJPPwaLoMcLqZM=
> =Sbpi
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

The only card in the slot is a 3com EtherLink III 3C589D-COMBO card.


Regards,
David P. Donahue
ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu



mAineAc <maineac_____@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<WLqdnXbGS7wqKOzcRVn-2Q@adelphia.com>...
> cyber0ne wrote:
> > I have a fresh install of Slackware 10.0 on an old laptop and I'm
> > having trouble getting my PCMCIA controller to work. I've been reading
> > through the PCMCIA HOWTO, but with little luck thus far. When I run
> > "/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart" to try and start the device, the error
> > reads as follows:
> >
> > Starting PCMCIA services:
> > <Probing for PCIC: edit rc.pcmcia>
> > cardmgr[265]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
> >
> > I tried to recompile the kernel with PCMCIA support built-in instead
> > of as a module, but no change. Any ideas? Admittedly, I'm kind of a
> > newbie when it comes to Linux hardware. The solution may be staring
> > me in the face, but I've never had this trouble before so I just don't
> > see it.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > David P. Donahue
> > ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu
>
> What card? It sounds like that is the driver your missing.
>
> mAineAc

The OS install? I had to strip some stuff out because it's a small
drive, but I didn't touch anything that looked like it had to do with
hardware. As for my kernel re-compile, the only thing I changed in
`make menuconfig` was to include everything in the PCMCIA menu in the
kernel. Is there something else I can check to see if I'm missing
something?


Regards,
David P. Donahue


Beowulf <edkchem@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<10n3o5dinvms388@corp.supernews.com>...
> mAineAc wrote:
>
> > cyber0ne wrote:
> >
> >> I have a fresh install of Slackware 10.0 on an old laptop and I'm
> >> having trouble getting my PCMCIA controller to work. I've been reading
> >> through the PCMCIA HOWTO, but with little luck thus far. When I run
> >> "/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia restart" to try and start the device, the error
> >> reads as follows:
> >>
> >> Starting PCMCIA services:
> >> <Probing for PCIC: edit rc.pcmcia>
> >> cardmgr[265]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
> >>
> >> I tried to recompile the kernel with PCMCIA support built-in instead
> >> of as a module, but no change. Any ideas? Admittedly, I'm kind of a
> >> newbie when it comes to Linux hardware. The solution may be staring
> >> me in the face, but I've never had this trouble before so I just don't
> >> see it.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> David P. Donahue
> >> ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu
> >
> >
> > What card? It sounds like that is the driver your missing.
> >
> > mAineAc
> Sounds instead he gummed up the install, instead? I use a 3COM PCMCIA
> network card in both slack 9.1 and 10. The PCMCIA support should
> already be there. The particular card driver / module is a separate
> issue. The 3COM network was also already built in - just needed to
> configure the network.
>
> If its an old laptop, maybe the PCMCIA is a wacky vintage. My laptop is
> a IBM Thinkpad i1400 from 1998 and PCMCIA is recognized "automagically."

cyber0ne wrote:
> The laptop is an old Compaq Presario 1080. It's something I picked up
> for free because the backlight was broken (my KVM gets around that)
> and I'm really not sure about the specifics of the hardware aside from
> the major numbers (P1 133, 32MB, etc.) Are there any commands in
> Linux I can use to discover information on the PCMCIA controller? I'm
> googling for some info as well, but thus far no luck.
>
>
> Regards,
> David P. Donahue
> ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu

post the output of dmesg. That will give us a better idea of what we are
looking at.

mAineAc

dmesg output:

Linux version 2.4.26 (root@teletran1) (gcc version 3.3.4) #1 Fri Oct 8
20:58:40 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f24d4 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000001000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff24d4 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
16MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 4096
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
DMI not present.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=302
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 166.093 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 331.77 BogoMIPS
Memory: 12880k/16384k available (1901k kernel code, 3116k reserved,
630k data, 128k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 04
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf7c3a, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS
MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
MPIIX: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:01.0
MPIIX: chipset revision 3
MPIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
hda: IBM-DMCA-21440, ATA DISK drive
hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1502B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 2822400 sectors (1445 MB) w/96KiB Cache, CHS=700/64/63
hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdb: ATAPI 10X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 184.800 MB/sec
32regs : 146.000 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 256.800 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 306.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: p5_mmx (306.000 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 2048)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed
Adding Swap: 100764k swap-space (priority -1)
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 2M
agpgart: no supported devices found.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices


Regards,
David P. Donahue
ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu





mAineAc <maineac_____@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<0cidnV0n_Kxgu-7cRVn-gg@adelphia.com>...
> cyber0ne wrote:
> > The laptop is an old Compaq Presario 1080. It's something I picked up
> > for free because the backlight was broken (my KVM gets around that)
> > and I'm really not sure about the specifics of the hardware aside from
> > the major numbers (P1 133, 32MB, etc.) Are there any commands in
> > Linux I can use to discover information on the PCMCIA controller? I'm
> > googling for some info as well, but thus far no luck.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > David P. Donahue
> > ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu
>
> post the output of dmesg. That will give us a better idea of what we are
> looking at.
>
> mAineAc