Re: [gentoo-user] How can I add pcnet_cs to my installation?

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I add pcnet_cs to my installation?

[Nick Rout]

you do not need to recompile the whole kernel, just the modules you
need.

in your menuconfig go into "Bus Options" and choose pcmcia support, with
whatever options you need for your hardware.

Then and only then will the right things appear under Device
drivers/Networking Support, there will be a section for pcmcia drivers.
Choose the NE2000 compatible one, and it will build pcnet_cs (according
to what you read under Help anyway)

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:36 -0800, michael shiloh wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm installing Gentoo on an old laptop. After installing and booting,
> I find that I forgot to add pcnet_cs, which I need for my PCMCIA network
> card, so modprobe of that fails.
> 
> Looking through the archives, I gather that this normally gets built
> with the kernel, but I don't want to rebuild the kernel. Is there a
> package I can emerge that will provide this?
> 
> (I can get onto the net by booting from the live CD)
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I add pcnet_cs to my installation?

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 10:49 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> you do not need to recompile the whole kernel, just the modules you
> need.
> 
> in your menuconfig go into "Bus Options" and choose pcmcia support, with
> whatever options you need for your hardware.
> 
> Then and only then will the right things appear under Device
> drivers/Networking Support, there will be a section for pcmcia drivers.
> Choose the NE2000 compatible one, and it will build pcnet_cs (according
> to what you read under Help anyway)

Sorry I didn't finish :-)

after putting the right config options in place, as modules, exit
menuconfig and execute the following

make modules && make modules_install

and for good measure:

depmod -a

it should then work without even a reboot.

> 
> On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:36 -0800, michael shiloh wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm installing Gentoo on an old laptop. After installing and booting,
> > I find that I forgot to add pcnet_cs, which I need for my PCMCIA network
> > card, so modprobe of that fails.
> > 
> > Looking through the archives, I gather that this normally gets built
> > with the kernel, but I don't want to rebuild the kernel. Is there a
> > package I can emerge that will provide this?
> > 
> > (I can get onto the net by booting from the live CD)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
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> > 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I add pcnet_cs to my installation?

[Alessandro D.M. Semeria]

In my personal opinion is better to emerge pcmcia modules:
"emerge pcmcia-cs" (as is recommended on doc).

Best regards

A.S.

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 10:52:34 +1300
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 10:49 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> > you do not need to recompile the whole kernel, just the modules you
> > need.
> > 
> > in your menuconfig go into "Bus Options" and choose pcmcia support,
> > with whatever options you need for your hardware.
> > 
> > Then and only then will the right things appear under Device
> > drivers/Networking Support, there will be a section for pcmcia
> > drivers. Choose the NE2000 compatible one, and it will build
> > pcnet_cs (according to what you read under Help anyway)
> 
> Sorry I didn't finish :-)
> 
> after putting the right config options in place, as modules, exit
> menuconfig and execute the following
> 
> make modules && make modules_install
> 
> and for good measure:
> 
> depmod -a
> 
> it should then work without even a reboot.
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:36 -0800, michael shiloh wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > I'm installing Gentoo on an old laptop. After installing and
> > > booting, I find that I forgot to add pcnet_cs, which I need for my
> > > PCMCIA network card, so modprobe of that fails.
> > > 
> > > Looking through the archives, I gather that this normally gets
> > > built with the kernel, but I don't want to rebuild the kernel. Is
> > > there a package I can emerge that will provide this?
> > > 
> > > (I can get onto the net by booting from the live CD)
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Michael
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > > 
> -- 
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> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I add pcnet_cs to my installation?

[Nick Rout]

What doc are you referring to?

AFAIK if you are on 2.6 emerge pcmcia-cs does not emerge any kernel
modules, but only the support programs for pcmcia.

Thats certainly seems to be what has happenned on my laptop, which has
just been reinstalled with 2004.3 as of last week.


invertigating further, this is from the ebuild:

 "For 2.5/2.6 kernels, the PCMCIA support from the kernel should"
"be used. Enable PCMCIA and any further drivers you need there,"
"and then use this package to install the PCMCIA tools."

It is otherwise for 2.4 , the ebuild says this:

"To avail yourself of the pcmcia-cs drivers, you have to disable the"
"PCMCIA support in the kernel.  (Otherwise, you might experience"
"CardServices version mismatch errors)"
"Proper kernel config for this package is that PCMCIA/Card Bus under"
"General Setup is off and Wireless LAN (non-ham radio) is on but"
"no modules or drivers turned on under Network Device Support"
"if you have wireless."
"Also note it now appears that you need CONFIG_CRC32 turned on"
"These are the CRC32 Library functions in the config"

(sorry about the formatting)


On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:26:32 +0100
"Alessandro D.M. Semeria" <goloiat@libero.it> wrote:

> In my personal opinion is better to emerge pcmcia modules:
> "emerge pcmcia-cs" (as is recommended on doc).
> 
> Best regards
> 
> A.S.
> 
> On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 10:52:34 +1300
> Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 10:49 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > you do not need to recompile the whole kernel, just the modules you
> > > need.
> > > 
> > > in your menuconfig go into "Bus Options" and choose pcmcia support,
> > > with whatever options you need for your hardware.
> > > 
> > > Then and only then will the right things appear under Device
> > > drivers/Networking Support, there will be a section for pcmcia
> > > drivers. Choose the NE2000 compatible one, and it will build
> > > pcnet_cs (according to what you read under Help anyway)
> > 
> > Sorry I didn't finish :-)
> > 
> > after putting the right config options in place, as modules, exit
> > menuconfig and execute the following
> > 
> > make modules && make modules_install
> > 
> > and for good measure:
> > 
> > depmod -a
> > 
> > it should then work without even a reboot.
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:36 -0800, michael shiloh wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm installing Gentoo on an old laptop. After installing and
> > > > booting, I find that I forgot to add pcnet_cs, which I need for my
> > > > PCMCIA network card, so modprobe of that fails.
> > > > 
> > > > Looking through the archives, I gather that this normally gets
> > > > built with the kernel, but I don't want to rebuild the kernel. Is
> > > > there a package I can emerge that will provide this?
> > > > 
> > > > (I can get onto the net by booting from the live CD)
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Michael
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > > > 
> > -- 
> > Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I add pcnet_cs to my installation?

[Alessandro D.M. Semeria]

Micheal not say nothing about the kernel, then I supposed he had used 
a stable gentoo-sources (2.4) and not the devel one (2.6).

Best regards.
A.S.


On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:46:36 +1300
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:

> What doc are you referring to?
> 
> AFAIK if you are on 2.6 emerge pcmcia-cs does not emerge any kernel
> modules, but only the support programs for pcmcia.
> 
> Thats certainly seems to be what has happenned on my laptop, which has
> just been reinstalled with 2004.3 as of last week.
> 
> 
> invertigating further, this is from the ebuild:
> 
>  "For 2.5/2.6 kernels, the PCMCIA support from the kernel should"
> "be used. Enable PCMCIA and any further drivers you need there,"
> "and then use this package to install the PCMCIA tools."
> 
> It is otherwise for 2.4 , the ebuild says this:
> 
> "To avail yourself of the pcmcia-cs drivers, you have to disable the"
> "PCMCIA support in the kernel.  (Otherwise, you might experience"
> "CardServices version mismatch errors)"
> "Proper kernel config for this package is that PCMCIA/Card Bus under"
> "General Setup is off and Wireless LAN (non-ham radio) is on but"
> "no modules or drivers turned on under Network Device Support"
> "if you have wireless."
> "Also note it now appears that you need CONFIG_CRC32 turned on"
> "These are the CRC32 Library functions in the config"
> 
> (sorry about the formatting)
> 
> 
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:26:32 +0100
> "Alessandro D.M. Semeria" <goloiat@libero.it> wrote:
> 
> > In my personal opinion is better to emerge pcmcia modules:
> > "emerge pcmcia-cs" (as is recommended on doc).
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > A.S.
> > 
> > On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 10:52:34 +1300
> > Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 10:49 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > > you do not need to recompile the whole kernel, just the modules
> > > > you need.
> > > > 
> > > > in your menuconfig go into "Bus Options" and choose pcmcia
> > > > support, with whatever options you need for your hardware.
> > > > 
> > > > Then and only then will the right things appear under Device
> > > > drivers/Networking Support, there will be a section for pcmcia
> > > > drivers. Choose the NE2000 compatible one, and it will build
> > > > pcnet_cs (according to what you read under Help anyway)
> > > 
> > > Sorry I didn't finish :-)
> > > 
> > > after putting the right config options in place, as modules, exit
> > > menuconfig and execute the following
> > > 
> > > make modules && make modules_install
> > > 
> > > and for good measure:
> > > 
> > > depmod -a
> > > 
> > > it should then work without even a reboot.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:36 -0800, michael shiloh wrote:
> > > > > Hello all,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm installing Gentoo on an old laptop. After installing and
> > > > > booting, I find that I forgot to add pcnet_cs, which I need
> > > > > for my PCMCIA network card, so modprobe of that fails.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Looking through the archives, I gather that this normally gets
> > > > > built with the kernel, but I don't want to rebuild the kernel.
> > > > > Is there a package I can emerge that will provide this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > (I can get onto the net by booting from the live CD)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Michael
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > --
> > > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > > > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > > 
> > 
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I add pcnet_cs to my installation?

[Nick Rout]

very true, i guess i kinda made an assumption that he would use the
leatest, everyone in gentooland seems to be on some form of 2.6.

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 00:29:04 +0100
"Alessandro D.M. Semeria" <goloiat@libero.it> wrote:

> Micheal not say nothing about the kernel, then I supposed he had used 
> a stable gentoo-sources (2.4) and not the devel one (2.6).
> 
> Best regards.
> A.S.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:46:36 +1300
> Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > What doc are you referring to?
> > 


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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I add pcnet_cs to my installation?

[michael shiloh]

Sorry. I should have pointed that out. I am in fact using 2.6.

I actually got it all running, but I'm not sure exactly how.
I tried a kernel with no PCMCIA support, but when I emerged 
pcmcia-cs it failed due to needing PCMCIA support in the kernel. 
So I compiled the kernel again, this time turning on every 
single PCMCIA related item I could find. This time  pcmcia-cs
worked.

Some day I might redo this just to figure out what the critical
steps were, but I need to finish this installation so I can actually
use my laptop.

Still, I can see from the different answers, that there is a bit
of confusion about this issue. I appreciate all of your help as
I'll be installing Gentoo on many other computers, I'm sure.

Michael


On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Alessandro D.M. Semeria wrote:

> Micheal not say nothing about the kernel, then I supposed he had used 
> a stable gentoo-sources (2.4) and not the devel one (2.6).
> 
> Best regards.
> A.S.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:46:36 +1300
> Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > What doc are you referring to?
> > 
> > AFAIK if you are on 2.6 emerge pcmcia-cs does not emerge any kernel
> > modules, but only the support programs for pcmcia.
> > 
> > Thats certainly seems to be what has happenned on my laptop, which has
> > just been reinstalled with 2004.3 as of last week.
> > 
> > 
> > invertigating further, this is from the ebuild:
> > 
> >  "For 2.5/2.6 kernels, the PCMCIA support from the kernel should"
> > "be used. Enable PCMCIA and any further drivers you need there,"
> > "and then use this package to install the PCMCIA tools."
> > 
> > It is otherwise for 2.4 , the ebuild says this:
> > 
> > "To avail yourself of the pcmcia-cs drivers, you have to disable the"
> > "PCMCIA support in the kernel.  (Otherwise, you might experience"
> > "CardServices version mismatch errors)"
> > "Proper kernel config for this package is that PCMCIA/Card Bus under"
> > "General Setup is off and Wireless LAN (non-ham radio) is on but"
> > "no modules or drivers turned on under Network Device Support"
> > "if you have wireless."
> > "Also note it now appears that you need CONFIG_CRC32 turned on"
> > "These are the CRC32 Library functions in the config"
> > 
> > (sorry about the formatting)
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:26:32 +0100
> > "Alessandro D.M. Semeria" <goloiat@libero.it> wrote:
> > 
> > > In my personal opinion is better to emerge pcmcia modules:
> > > "emerge pcmcia-cs" (as is recommended on doc).
> > > 
> > > Best regards
> > > 
> > > A.S.
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 10:52:34 +1300
> > > Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 10:49 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > > > you do not need to recompile the whole kernel, just the modules
> > > > > you need.
> > > > > 
> > > > > in your menuconfig go into "Bus Options" and choose pcmcia
> > > > > support, with whatever options you need for your hardware.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Then and only then will the right things appear under Device
> > > > > drivers/Networking Support, there will be a section for pcmcia
> > > > > drivers. Choose the NE2000 compatible one, and it will build
> > > > > pcnet_cs (according to what you read under Help anyway)
> > > > 
> > > > Sorry I didn't finish :-)
> > > > 
> > > > after putting the right config options in place, as modules, exit
> > > > menuconfig and execute the following
> > > > 
> > > > make modules && make modules_install
> > > > 
> > > > and for good measure:
> > > > 
> > > > depmod -a
> > > > 
> > > > it should then work without even a reboot.
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:36 -0800, michael shiloh wrote:
> > > > > > Hello all,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I'm installing Gentoo on an old laptop. After installing and
> > > > > > booting, I find that I forgot to add pcnet_cs, which I need
> > > > > > for my PCMCIA network card, so modprobe of that fails.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Looking through the archives, I gather that this normally gets
> > > > > > built with the kernel, but I don't want to rebuild the kernel.
> > > > > > Is there a package I can emerge that will provide this?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > (I can get onto the net by booting from the live CD)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Michael
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > > > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > 
> > -- 
> > Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
> > 
> > 
> > --
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> > 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I add pcnet_cs to my installation?

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 20:42 -0800, michael shiloh wrote:
> Sorry. I should have pointed that out. I am in fact using 2.6.
> 
> I actually got it all running, but I'm not sure exactly how.
> I tried a kernel with no PCMCIA support, but when I emerged 
> pcmcia-cs it failed due to needing PCMCIA support in the kernel. 
> So I compiled the kernel again, this time turning on every 
> single PCMCIA related item I could find. This time  pcmcia-cs
> worked.
> 
> Some day I might redo this just to figure out what the critical
> steps were, but I need to finish this installation so I can actually
> use my laptop.
> 
> Still, I can see from the different answers, that there is a bit
> of confusion about this issue. I appreciate all of your help as
> I'll be installing Gentoo on many other computers, I'm sure.
> 
> Michael
There is no confusion, we were jsut at odds over which kernel you were
reason - his answer was right for 2.4, mine for 2.6. The ebuild is the
final arbiter :-)



> 
> 
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Alessandro D.M. Semeria wrote:
> 
> > Micheal not say nothing about the kernel, then I supposed he had used 
> > a stable gentoo-sources (2.4) and not the devel one (2.6).
> > 
> > Best regards.
> > A.S.
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:46:36 +1300
> > Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> > 
> > > What doc are you referring to?
> > > 
> > > AFAIK if you are on 2.6 emerge pcmcia-cs does not emerge any kernel
> > > modules, but only the support programs for pcmcia.
> > > 
> > > Thats certainly seems to be what has happenned on my laptop, which has
> > > just been reinstalled with 2004.3 as of last week.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > invertigating further, this is from the ebuild:
> > > 
> > >  "For 2.5/2.6 kernels, the PCMCIA support from the kernel should"
> > > "be used. Enable PCMCIA and any further drivers you need there,"
> > > "and then use this package to install the PCMCIA tools."
> > > 
> > > It is otherwise for 2.4 , the ebuild says this:
> > > 
> > > "To avail yourself of the pcmcia-cs drivers, you have to disable the"
> > > "PCMCIA support in the kernel.  (Otherwise, you might experience"
> > > "CardServices version mismatch errors)"
> > > "Proper kernel config for this package is that PCMCIA/Card Bus under"
> > > "General Setup is off and Wireless LAN (non-ham radio) is on but"
> > > "no modules or drivers turned on under Network Device Support"
> > > "if you have wireless."
> > > "Also note it now appears that you need CONFIG_CRC32 turned on"
> > > "These are the CRC32 Library functions in the config"
> > > 
> > > (sorry about the formatting)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:26:32 +0100
> > > "Alessandro D.M. Semeria" <goloiat@libero.it> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > In my personal opinion is better to emerge pcmcia modules:
> > > > "emerge pcmcia-cs" (as is recommended on doc).
> > > > 
> > > > Best regards
> > > > 
> > > > A.S.
> > > > 
> > > > On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 10:52:34 +1300
> > > > Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 10:49 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > > > > you do not need to recompile the whole kernel, just the modules
> > > > > > you need.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > in your menuconfig go into "Bus Options" and choose pcmcia
> > > > > > support, with whatever options you need for your hardware.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Then and only then will the right things appear under Device
> > > > > > drivers/Networking Support, there will be a section for pcmcia
> > > > > > drivers. Choose the NE2000 compatible one, and it will build
> > > > > > pcnet_cs (according to what you read under Help anyway)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sorry I didn't finish :-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > after putting the right config options in place, as modules, exit
> > > > > menuconfig and execute the following
> > > > > 
> > > > > make modules && make modules_install
> > > > > 
> > > > > and for good measure:
> > > > > 
> > > > > depmod -a
> > > > > 
> > > > > it should then work without even a reboot.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:36 -0800, michael shiloh wrote:
> > > > > > > Hello all,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I'm installing Gentoo on an old laptop. After installing and
> > > > > > > booting, I find that I forgot to add pcnet_cs, which I need
> > > > > > > for my PCMCIA network card, so modprobe of that fails.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Looking through the archives, I gather that this normally gets
> > > > > > > built with the kernel, but I don't want to rebuild the kernel.
> > > > > > > Is there a package I can emerge that will provide this?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > (I can get onto the net by booting from the live CD)
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > Michael
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > --
> > > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > --
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> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --
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> > > 
> > 
> > --
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> > 
> 
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