[ltp] Linksys Etherfast 10/100 PC Card

[Joe Luker]

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I've probably caused some hackery myself by trusting the "upgrade"
approach from the last several distros.

It was a happy little RH5 installation (minus netoworking) which was
upgraded to a Mandrake which was basically a RH6+fixes and then upgraded
again to RH7.1, and I had the new Linksys card connected when I did that
last upgrade hoping for an automated config, but no such luck.

Since Peter asked me about card services or yenta, I've noticed that
both seem to be trying to run at boot time per dmesg output, and I'm
wondering if all those upgrades have cheesed the system services
somehow, although I have no other indications of problems and the
installs all seemed to go fairly normal (except for no option to
configure networking on that last one, but I ran netconfig and told it
to do DHCP since I have a Linksys DSL router heading up my lan).

All I get from the software side is "network unreachable" and the dmesg
stuff I posted earlier, but the hardware lamps are all lit like it's
operating normally?

I've run pstree just now and I see cardmgr is alive and well, but
nothing from this yenta thing (which I'm still not sure what that is?),
but I'm sort of out of ideas at this point???

I don't think it's hardware since I can boot WinDOZE on the laptop and
get to the outside world and ping all the other entities on my lan???

Tod Harter wrote:
> 
> I know that both Mandrake and RH have a bit of hackery in the network startup
> scripts to deal with deffered initialization of PCMCIA network interfaces.
> Its not something you SHOULD have to hack with, but I have no idea how other
> distros deal with the issue, if they do. One would assume that the main ones
> have SOME similar mechanism.
> 
> On Tuesday 13 November 2001 16:14, you wrote:
> > Joe Luker said:
> > > I tried commenting out all other port entries IAW Mark Alford's post of
> > > 20JUL00, but that doesn't seem to help.
> > >
> > > I'm getting error messages after the kernel boots and when the services
> > > are starting up saying that my eth0 interface is failing - what is that
> > > name of that startup log that keeps all that stuff?
> > >
> > > Any troubleshooting ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Are you running a RH kernel, or your own?  Version?  Card Services or
> > Yenta? Version?
> >
> > Also, maybe I don't know what I am doing, but using PCMCIA Ethernet cards I
> > always have them fail when the system tries to bring it up, because the
> > pcmcia driver isn't loaded yet.  I don't know what the "right" solution is.
> >  With RH it always came up on its own a bit later in init.  With Debian I
> > have resorted to a "local" init script at the very end of init that takes
> > eth0 up and down.  (The first line of the script it "# hack hack hack . .
> > .").
> >
> > Oh, and are you talking about dmesg?  (Try typing dmesg and see if you go
> > "Ohhh.")
> > Good luck!
> >
> > -Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
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