YDL 3.0.1 on PB 3400c issues

[R. McFarlane]

At 09:59 AM 9/10/2004, R. Hirschfeld, had this to say :

>I can't offer any advice specific to a PB 3400c or an Orinoco Silver
>card, but here are some general PCMCIA things you can try:
>
>- set PCMCIA=yes in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia;

         Ah ha!

>- remove the ".o" from "pcmcia_core.o", "$PCIC.o" and "ds.o" in
>   /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia (this is a bug in the startup script);
>
>- remove or rename the directory /lib/modules/<kernel name>/pcmcia if
>   it exists and is just full of symlinks.
>
>The presence of the /lib/modules/<kernel name>/pcmcia directory causes
>the startup script to use the code with the ".o" problem.  If the
>directory does not exist, the script will use other code to load the
>modules.  This other code (intended I think for the case of kernel
>PCMCIA support, but I'm not sure) does not pass options to the
>modules; I don't know whether that's intentional or another bug (it's
>the only difference other than the ".o").
>
>Hope this helps,
>Ray
>
>P.S.  I use kernel PCMCIA support rather than the standalone pcmcia_cs
>module, which means that I should be using PCIC=yenta_socket rather
>than PCIC=i82365.  I actually specify the latter and it works anyway,
>probably because it gets changed to the former by this kludge in the
>startup script:
>
>         kernel=`uname -r | cut -d. -f1-2`
>         if [ $PCIC = i82365 -a $kernel = 2.4 ]; then
>             kudzu=$(kudzu -b pci -c socket -p | grep yenta_socket)
>             if [ -n "$kudzu" ]; then
>                 PCIC=yenta_socket
>             fi
>         fi


         Almost there now! Not sure why but I can not connect to my WAP 
which is configured for DHCP. I have a eth1 device configuration set for 
DHCP. Is there something else I need to do?

Thanks in advance!


Sincerely,

R. McFarlane

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