FC2 test1: pcmcia problems on dell i8100

[Rick Johnson]

Alexander Volovics wrote:
> 
> I have read the bugreport you mentioned in a previous mail and tried
> booting with 'acpi=off' and 'pci=noacpi'. This makes no difference
> in my case.
> 
> I simply cannot get eth0 started, and 'yenta_socket' is never loaded.
> After modprobing 'yenta_socket' and trying (for example)
> /sbin/ifup eth0 I always get the following:
> 
>   interface 'eth0' not found
>   /bin/true
>   xirc2ps_cs device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying
>   initialization
> 
> and eth0 is never activated.
> 
> And "/sbin/cardctl ident" gives no info about the card, only
> 'no product info available'.

Strangely enough, after the modprobe, restart pcmcia (service pcmcia 
restart), then ifup eth0. That seems to work for me on my Lattitude CPx.

-Rick
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