[PLUG] Disappearing network interface

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Jul 26 09:03:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Steven A. Adams wrote:

> >   According to the linux on laptops Web site, the Zonet fast ethernet cards
> > require the pcnet_cs module. Anyone know where I can find such a beast for
> > the 2.4.20 kernel in Slackware-9.0.0?

> Here's a couple of interesting links that you can look too:
> The first is the source for pcnet_cs, the second is the project source
> for the pcmcia-cs project.

Steve, et al.:

  The pcnet_cs module is in /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia. The process, /sbin/cardmgr,
is in the list waiting to be run. 'lsmod' shows pcmcia_core is loaded.
'find' doesn't find pcnet_cs.

  I seem to be stuck in a deep rut here. If pcnet_cs is listed in
/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia, shouldn't it be loaded if a card requiring that module
is in the slot? I did try '/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop' followed by 'start'
with no different results.

  When I read 'dmesg' I see that the card is properly detected, then
cardservices are unloaded:

8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:06.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:02.1
Yenta IRQ list 0618, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 0618, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x130-0x137 0x170-0x177 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x370-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x3b8-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x10ec, device 0x8139
PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
... (a bunch of USB stuff)
unloading Kernel Card Services
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
... (the above repeats)

  Can someone interpret this for me, please? What am I missing in order to
get this NIC working and recognizing the network? All I get is "Network is
unreachable". It must have something to do with the pcnet_cs module not
being loaded.

TIA,

Rich

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