Fedora Users — Re: Problems with FC 2 - Touch-pad and PCMCIA Ethernet card

I change the line as you told me, and the system now can see my Ethernet PCMCIA card. But the eth0 interface does not come up. So, after the boot my Ethernet PCMCIA card lights are on but I have

# ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2467 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2467 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2675256 (2.5 Mb)  TX bytes:2675256 (2.5 Mb)

So, if I type

# cardmgr

the eth0 interface come up:

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:98:37:1B:DF
          inet addr:192.168.1.10  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:98ff:fe36:1bdf/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:618 (618.0 b)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2467 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2467 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2675256 (2.5 Mb)  TX bytes:2675256 (2.5 Mb)

WHY? How can I make the system bring up my eth0 (Ethernet PCMCIA card) automatically on boot?

Please, help me. Thank you very much in advance.

Daniele

Clive Long wrote:

--- Daniele Masini <d.masini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
Clive Long wrote:

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Yepp, see here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123457

Quote:
The line I changed in /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia is

95:

       #if ! grep -q pcmcia /proc/devices ; then
       if ! cardctl status 2>&1 > /dev/null ;


then

HaJo
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This one-liner fixed a problem I have had for a


month

on a laptop with a PCMCIA network card


So, is the line
         if ! cardctl status 2>&1 > /dev/null ;
then
better (for you) than
         if ! grep -q pcmcia /proc/devices ; then
?

Which module I have to recompile to try to restore
the old PCMCIA code?

Thanks in advance.

Daniele

The only change I made was to the text in

/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia

As I wrote originally

I made NO OTHER changes, no recompiles etc. to get the
PCMCIA NIC working.

I hope this also works for you.

Clive


	
	
		
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