On Saturday 26 April 2008 16:05, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 26 April 2008 15:47, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 April 2008 15:32, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Saturday 26 April 2008 13:49, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > Don't see anything relevant (which doesn't mean it's not there). The
> > > > other places to look would be /boot/config* ("grep PCMCIA" and
> > > > compare the results), or maybe 'lspci' and/or 'lsusb'. Also
> > > > /etc/udev/rules.d/*
> > >
> > > They are identical. One possible breakthrough, though. On the Live
> > > system I managed to get the info screen on the connection. It said it
> > > was using pcnet_cs. This isn't the device name, I guess, but probably
> > > a driver or chipset? Either way, that should, surely, be traceable to
> > > our solution.
> >
> > I've just found this -
> >
> > Pcnet_cs is a driver for all NS8390-based PCMCIA ethernet cards. It can
> > use either polled IO or a shared memory window to exchange data with the
> > card. The driver first tests for a shared memory buffer, falling back on
> > polled IO if the memory test fails. When this driver is bound to a card,
> > it allocates the next available ethernet device (eth0..eth#). This device
> > name will be reported in the kernel log file, and passed on to
> > cardmgr(8).
> >
> > So - does anyone know which device from the list belongs to the NS8390
> > group?
>
> According to
> http://www.mikrotik.com/documentation/manual_2.7/DriverList.html the 3Com
> 3c590 driver should work. Unfortunately I'm still getting 'Device eth0
> doesn't seem to be present' :-(
>
I tried to modprobe pcnet_cs, since it is listed under the drivers. This is
what I found in messages -
pcnet_cs: version magic '2.6.25-0.121.rc5.git4.fc9 SMP mod_unload 686
4KSTACKS ' should be '2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686 SMP mod_unload 686
4KSTACKS '
Anne
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