[ltp] Help with pcmcia on a 560z

[Gregor Rojec-Goldmann]

nat wrote:
> Hey, I have an IBM Thinkpad 560z that I am wrestling to get Debian on to.
> The machine has no CD or floppy drive, or at least when I was given the
> maching they had been lost, so in order to install I got a harddrive converter and threw it (the hd) into a desktop, and installed from a
> knoppix CD. I installed a 2.4.20-xrfs kernel. Threw the drive back into
> themachine,fixed the strange vga settings, and moved on to configuring ethernet
> support.  WhenI was given the machine it was running Win98 and both
> PCMCIA sockets and cards modem and ethernet were working.
> 
> Through a few google searches I found that pcmcia support on my machine
> can be obtaned through these modules: yenta_socket pcmcia_core, and that
> my ethernet card, a Linksys EC2T, uses pcnet_cs .
> 
> All of these modules are loaded (checked lsmod).
> 
> When I check the /var/lib/pcmcia/stab I get
> 
> Socket 0: empty
> Socket 1: empty
> 
> I tried running ifconfig eth0 up and got
> 
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device.
> 
> In my search for an answer I found this thread on the archives of a list:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200210/msg00210.html
> 
> The problems described there mirror mine, but the thread terminiates
> before the solution is found.  (the only difference in description is that
> my machine does not beep when cards are inserted or removed.  But all
> outputs are similar enough.
> 
> It seems like the machine won't recognize anything in the PCMCIA sockets,
> as it also does not find my modem.  Is there something that I can do?
> Thanks for any help, ~~nat
> 

Is your cardmgr (pcmcia card manager) running?

If not, start it as root and see if it beeps twice when inserting the card.

Gregor