problem of PCMCIA NIC in kernel 2.6

Hi,

I have just upgrade my RH9 kernel to 2.6.8.1 and get my sound card working
perfectly. But my PCMCIA NIC stopped working under this kernel. The card is
realtek 8139, I compiled 8139too and could probe the module using modprobe
with no error, but the card just simply does not going up. I can not find
the NIC information in lspci.

When using cardctl insert, i got a "device or resource is busy"
message.After cardctl eject and insert again, nothing happended.

I have searched in google and found plenty of this kind of problem with no
clear solution. I have already change the boot scripts order of pcmcia
before the network scripts. No luck.

Any idea?

Thanks!

Sun

"hyena" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:cmo1uk$3ve$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> I have just upgrade my RH9 kernel to 2.6.8.1 and get my sound card
working
> perfectly. But my PCMCIA NIC stopped working under this kernel. The card
is
> realtek 8139, I compiled 8139too and could probe the module using modprobe
> with no error, but the card just simply does not going up. I can not find
> the NIC information in lspci.

Go directly to a Fedora Core 3 install, which just came out today. 2.6
kernel, the test releases have been quicker than FC2, and overall it's
gotten a lot better.

> When using cardctl insert, i got a "device or resource is busy"
> message.After cardctl eject and insert again, nothing happended.
>
> I have searched in google and found plenty of this kind of problem with
no
> clear solution. I have already change the boot scripts order of pcmcia
> before the network scripts. No luck.

Did you rmmod the old kernel module, and are you sure you got the *right*
new kernel module in place? How precisely did you load it?

Thanks for your reply!. Actually I just want to update my kernel to support
my sound card, the Xwindows and other software work well currently so I am
not planning to change them yet.

And I did not do anything of rmmod to remove the old module and neither do i
check the modules is right placed or not. I thought this should be taken
care by "make modules_install" process.So do i need to remove the old
8139too module menually? or do I have to remove all the old PCMCIA related
modules?

Nevertheless, I just got some PCMCIA patches today and will patch my kernel
later to see the result.

regards,
Sun

"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:BoKdnVvT2_uULg3cRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "hyena" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:cmo1uk$3ve$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just upgrade my RH9 kernel to 2.6.8.1 and get my sound card
> working
> > perfectly. But my PCMCIA NIC stopped working under this kernel. The card
> is
> > realtek 8139, I compiled 8139too and could probe the module using
modprobe
> > with no error, but the card just simply does not going up. I can not
find
> > the NIC information in lspci.
>
> Go directly to a Fedora Core 3 install, which just came out today. 2.6
> kernel, the test releases have been quicker than FC2, and overall it's
> gotten a lot better.
>
> > When using cardctl insert, i got a "device or resource is busy"
> > message.After cardctl eject and insert again, nothing happended.
> >
> > I have searched in google and found plenty of this kind of problem with
> no
> > clear solution. I have already change the boot scripts order of pcmcia
> > before the network scripts. No luck.
>
> Did you rmmod the old kernel module, and are you sure you got the *right*
> new kernel module in place? How precisely did you load it?
>
>

"hyena" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:cmqd8k$ksd$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks for your reply!. Actually I just want to update my kernel to
support
> my sound card, the Xwindows and other software work well currently so I am
> not planning to change them yet.
>
> And I did not do anything of rmmod to remove the old module and neither do
i
> check the modules is right placed or not. I thought this should be taken
> care by "make modules_install" process.So do i need to remove the old
> 8139too module menually? or do I have to remove all the old PCMCIA related
> modules?

I don't know. "make modules_install" is what you do at the *end* of doing a
make with a new kernel, but I can't tell from your notes if you built a
whole new kernel, or just built up some modules and tried to load them by
hand without putting them in /lib/modules/{kernel-name}, or if you
accidentally wound up with two kernel modules of the same name in
/lib/modules/{kernel-name}, or what.

How did you build your modules? As part of a new kernel that you then
successfully rebooted with?

> Nevertheless, I just got some PCMCIA patches today and will patch my
kernel
> later to see the result.

Good luck. I do hope that you *are* giving each new kernel a different name
in your Makefile, to avoid any conflicts between old and new kernels and old
and new modules.