On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > The no socket found message seems independent of whether the card is > > inserted or not during boot. I was not able to configure the card during > > install because (big assumption here) of the observed no socket found > > noted above. In order to configure the card and the resulting eth0 I had > > to resort to the manual removal of the modules, followed by restarting > > pcmcia and inserting the card. I could then use the GUI to add a new > > wireless device as normal. > > Granted I have an x86_64 laptop, but try some or all of the kernel boot > options: noapic pci=noacpi,usepirqmask or noacpi and see if that allows > you to boot with the wireless nic. On an 'open' wireless lan (no > security) my pcmcia orinco_cs will find the network with no > configuration at all using these options. Using wireless security > obviously does require running system-config-network. There is security, but it is unrelated to this problem. In any case, it doesn't even get that far -- the pcmcia system doesn't see any sockets to talk to so it never sees the NIC to initialize it. I tried booting with your suggested options; they didn't help. I still get the no sockets found message.
