[H-GEN] Redhat 5.2 Network install and PCMCIA. (fwd)

[Andrae Muys]

Ok, here is the problem.

My boss has bought a brand new Toshiba Notebook, specifically for the
purposes of running Linux on it.  A nice little beast, ~156MB of RAM, and
PCMCIA ethernet and SCSI.  Naturally,  having an almost direct ethernet
connection to the primary Australian sunsite mirror, I would like to do an
FTP install.

Start install.
Do I want to use PCMCIA? Yes
Supp' disk... Initialising PCMCIA...
<Beep>
Second stage install.
(select FTP)
Pick Network Card...

Now this is funny, there isn't an 3c589x listed... (quick check of the
supported PCMCIA ethernet card list http://www.redhat.com/support/... yep,
first card on the list [3Com 3c589, 3c589B, 3c589C, 3c589D]).

Go back check the list again... Nope not there.

Check logs (ALT-F3/F4).  Lot's of error messages!

cardmgr[14]: couldn't open /var/run/cardmgr.pid No Such File or Directory.
cardmgr[14]: version 3.0.5
cardmgr[14]: writing 2 sockets
cs: IO Port probe 0x1000 - 0x17ff probe failed.
cs: IO Port probe 0x100 - 0x04ff excluding 0x220-0x22f, 0x330-0x337,
0x378-0x37f, 0x388-0x38f, 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO Port probe 0x0a00-0aff clean
cardmgr[14]: fopen stabfile) failed No such File or Directory
cardmgr[14]: initialising socket 1
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff excluding 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:clean
cardmgr[14]: socket 1 anonymous memory
cardmgr[14]: executing : 'insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/memory_cs.o'
memory_cs: mem0 : anonymous : unknown size
cardmgr[14]: fopen(stabfile) failed No such File or Directory
cardmgr[14]: executing : './memory start mem0'
cardmgr[14]: + ./memory : cannot open /var/run/stab : No such File.
cardmgr[14]: start cmd exited with status 2

Switched to the shell prompt on tty2.  

#cat /proc/modules
...
memory_cs	2	0
ds	2	[memory_cs] 2
i82365	5	2
pcmcia_core	9	[memory_cs ds i82365] 0

#cat /proc/devices
Char 127 pcmcia
block 9 md
     126 memory

#cat /proc/interrupts
11	i82365

Check spec's on card:
I/O - 16bytes from 200h-3a0h default 300h
irq - 3,5,7,9-12,15 default 10

===

I go to /lib/modules/.../pcmcia/

#insmod 3c589_cs.o

Checking /proc/modules indicates it's loaded.  Don't know if it works, but
at least the module is loaded.

Go back to install program, try and bypass the network adaptor stage. (Yes
I'm in expert mode).  No luck.  I try ESC, I try everything I can think
of, but I can't bypass it.

Neither can I test the network interface because despite loading two disks
of compressed tools -- One of which is exclusively dedicated to PCMCIA and
Network installs -- I still don't have the most basic of network config
tools I need to setup the network!

Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong?  Or does anyone know how to
bypass the adaptor selection dialog?  (Note F12 dosn't work).

Andrae Muys

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