Laptops :: Solo 2200
I have got PCMCIA working for the 6729 on a Micron Millennia Transport and a 16-bit Belkin ethernet card. I didn't exactly follow the method above. Instead, I downloaded the kernelsource.dsl, extracted it, took the .config file (from dsl 2.4.26 kernelsource\usr\src\linux-2.4.26\) and modified the PCMCIA section as described above. Then I downloaded the 2.4.26 kernel and recompiled it using the modified .config file. The pcmcia-cs package can be used to install the i82365 module after that.
A couple of extras I had to do (all mentioned above): to recompile, you need to install gnu-utils and gcc-with-libs; and since the pcmcia-cs package wants cc, I had to make cc a symbolic link to gcc. Be sure to configure the pcmcia config file per the PCMCIA HowTo. The options I used were "irq_mode=1 fast_pci=1".
My CD drive has not worked for years, so I had to buy an IDE 3.5 inch adapter and connect my HD to my desktop to get all this stuff on there. I performed a HD install from another partition using Grub to boot to Isolinux with the lowram option parameters, but that is the topic of another post in Tips.
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I had to modprobe i82365 a couple of times to get it working. There was a dependent module (I can't remember which) that I had to stop (rmmod) and then re-start beforehand. I also had to manually start the PCMCIA script that the pcmcia-cs package installs (/etc/init.d/pcmcia start). This script references a config file which is /etc/default/pcmcia, so you need to change the script to look for this path (under the Debian heading) and change the config file with the options above. I changed DHCP to "y" in the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts file, and in the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file, I added the lines specific to my ethernet card (Google your card and linux configuration) and changed the IRQ exclusions to 5 and 9. Finally, make sure you start the DHCP from the DSL control panel. If all is working, then use the backup tool to save your settings so that cardmgr will start automatically and find an IP address at the next start-up.
Hello,
I know this topic is old, but I ran into this issue on my Gateway 2100. Is it correct that all our begging to make this driver part of the mainstream release failed and I need to go through the above procedure to get my PCMCIA cards to work?
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